A week of tips and ideas for song writers and potential songwriters on MUSIC RADAR , the usual tips relate to the craft of songhwriting and often the theory behind it all (see some of my earlier posts). I thought that this blog would be about song writing but, well, you see ..... things got in the way.
However I have just found this great idea from Music Radar(.)com and it is well worth reading for any potential songwriter. The basis of the ideas is that if you can play, you can write. Certainly the musical side. The lyrics can look after themselves apparently.
40 ideas to write better songs, get those guitars out and start writing. Just very practical notions to get you producing more and better crackers. Give it a whirl and make it happen.
A related link to Total Guitar (April 2013 issue 240) suggests 50 ways to write better songs but after trying to read the mag on-line, I am totally confused. Maybe you have to download the mag to read the article. But I haven't tried to do that yet.
There are a number of videos (5) which take the writer/guitarist through
using standard chord progressions to form the basis for a new song. Nothing really new there however -in fact a little old hat since we should, as songwriters, be looking for something new. Of course that doesn't mean that an old and well used chord progression can't produce really wonderful songs.
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Songwriting, the original reason for starting this blog
I keep coming back to this, but the reason I started to write this blog was to look at resources for songwriters on the internet. Not so much the tools and technical side ( although I have considered this of late) but where to find help with the hard work of writing. It seems that there are numerous sites which offer help for the songwriter of all degrees of experience. Many of these also talk about performance, publishing and marketing. I have just updated my Squidoo lenses which cover this subject and have found a number of blogs which have not found a place on those pages.
I thought it would be useful to make a list of the blogs which I came across for future reference. Some are better than others and the subjects covered are an eclectic mixture, so if you use this list as a starting point you may well need to be selctive depending upon what you need or are searching for.
My Squidoo Lenses:
How To Write Memorable Song Lyrics
I thought it would be useful to make a list of the blogs which I came across for future reference. Some are better than others and the subjects covered are an eclectic mixture, so if you use this list as a starting point you may well need to be selctive depending upon what you need or are searching for.
My Squidoo Lenses:
How To Write Memorable Song Lyrics
Useful Blogs:
How To Write A Song ( included because of this one posting mainly - use of Audacity SW).
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