Songwriting tips
1. Always listen to music and don’t limit yourself to only one genre. Listen and get ideas from all types of music. A lot of times, people blind themselves by only listening to a specific type of music but because of this their songwriting can suffer because they are not well-rounded in music. Listening to all types of music will help to bring out ideas that you may not think of otherwise.
2. Along with the first songwriting tip, you should also try writing in different music styles to give yourself a taste of how songwriting works with each genre. Sometimes, someone who may not be interested in country music but decides to write a country song may go at it at a different angle as a normal country songwriter and it will give the song it’s own sense of style.
3. Try to write or put down ideas every day. Practice makes perfect and the more you practice songwriting, the better you will become. It’s just like everything else, if you want to get good you need to put in some time. Sure, pure raw talent has a lot to do with it to but practicing will help you to best use that talent.
4. Always be willing to learn more. A song is a lot more than just some words and music….there’s emotion, themes, etc as well to think of. Knowing and learning more about music and music theory will help you in your songwriting. Learning more will mean that you will have more tools to use in creating your songs.
5. Share your songs. Enter songwriting contests. Participate in songwriting circles and shows. Get your name out there as a songwriter. Get some critique from people to help you learn what you are doing right and what you might be doing wrong. The more you do this, the more comfortable with your songs you will be.
These are some great tips, but how do you get great ideas for songs?