General Songwritting Tip

by Chapman Jones
(KY)

For the new songwriter the hardest part is getting started. Ok, Ok. So you've written one lyric and your impressed with what you got down on paper. It sounds good and you are happy. Now you're struggling to start that second lyric and wondering why.

Someone mention if you force yourself to write a lyric it will suck. Not so. Not so at all. If you plan on writing more than one or two lyrics then you must force yourself to write. You must attempt to write something, a single line, a verse, a chorus, a hook as often as you possibly can. You absolutely cannot be be afraid to write a crappy lyric. When you deny yourself the crappy lyric then you aren't even touching on the potential that you have. By writing the crappy lyric you soon learn what *is* crap and what *is* good!

Don't sit there think to yourself, this sucks. All that does is create depression....and then you get your mind all hopped up on the whole writers block thing. (which is another story) But so what if a lyric you write happens to suck. The upside is now you have another lyric under your belt. One that you can reference in the future and learn from.

Crappy lyrics are part of it. Get over it. You have plenty more lyrics inside just waiting for the right moment. So, in the meantime, write. Write every day! Good, bad or indifferent. Write everyday! That is how you get better at writing lyrics..

Chap