Is Your Song Intro Inviting Your Audience to Keep Listening?
BLJ Mayank Blogger
May 06, 2020
The intro of your song is that one section that’s part songwriting, part production. In other words, for many songs you can take the existin...
Showing posts with label The Essential Secrets of Songwriting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Essential Secrets of Songwriting. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Ten-Minute Ideas For Getting Your Songwriting Mind Ready
BLJ Mayank Blogger
May 05, 2020
Everybody knows the benefit of taking breaks during songwriting sessions. A break allows your creative mind a chance to regroup and freshen ...
Monday, 4 May 2020
Making Your Melodies Easy For Listeners to Remember
BLJ Mayank Blogger
May 04, 2020
In order for a melody to be successful, it needs to be easily remembered by a listener. If your melodies sound like aimless wandering, you’r...
Friday, 1 May 2020
The Relationship Between Inspiration and Hard Work
BLJ Mayank Blogger
May 01, 2020
In a creative art like songwriting, inspiration always leads to hard work, but the effect is often fleeting. Inspiration is like the wind: i...
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Tips for Songwriters: Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 30, 2020
Given the few notes within an octave and the millions of songs that have been written using them, accidental plagiarism is a constant compan...
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
From Wandering to Predictable – Comparing Verse and Chorus Progressions
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 28, 2020
There are lots of ways to categorize chord progressions, but the one way that will be most useful for pop songwriters is to think of them as...
Monday, 27 April 2020
An Incomplete Song Is Not a Failure
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 27, 2020
As a songwriter, when the song you’re working on seems to be going nowhere, it’s a source of great discouragement. You find yourself facing ...
Friday, 24 April 2020
5 Chord Progression Ideas For Verse-Chorus Songs
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 24, 2020
Most of the time, a song will begin and end in the same key, keeping that key throughout its entire length. If that sounds boring to you, it...
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Writing a Song With Unrelated Sections
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 23, 2020
You might assume that a verse should have some connection to the chorus that follows it — something that makes the verse and chorus sound ...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Using Inverted Chords to Create Musical Contrast: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 21, 2020
An inverted chord is one where the letter name of the chord (C, let’s say) is not the lowest sounding note. Normally, if you play the C ch...
Monday, 20 April 2020
Staying Strong – Staying Creative
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 20, 2020
We are living in times that we haven’t seen in our lifetime. I am very impressed by the positivity I see from so many people as we deal with...
Friday, 17 April 2020
Pop Songwriting: Perfecting the Miniature Musical Form
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 17, 2020
Songs are short. Most of them, anyway. And by short, I mean usually less than four minutes. That may seem like an insignificant detail that...
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Creating Moods In a Song is More Than Major Versus Minor
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 15, 2020
It’s a stereotypical notion that major keys sound happy and minor keys sound sad. In reality, it takes a lot more than simply choosing major...
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Reading a Lyric as Part of Your Songwriting Process
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 14, 2020
Have you ever tried just reading your lyric out loud, without thinking about the melody you’ve written to go along with it? Reading a lyric ...
Monday, 13 April 2020
Charting Trends In Your Songwriting Style
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 13, 2020
Here’s an idea that might help you get a clear picture of the kinds of songs you like to write, as well as making it easy to identify other ...
Thursday, 9 April 2020
How Simplicity Makes for Good Songs
BLJ Mayank Blogger
April 09, 2020
Some of the best songs ever written have a noticeable core of simplicity about them. Songs where the melody is easy to remember and easy to...
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