Ultimate Songwriting Blog

Jul 14, 2008, How To Get A Song Idea Or "Start"

The best way to start a song is to simply go around humming or singing stuff all the time. It can all kinds of stuff, anything really. For example,

Jul 14, 2008, ask friends for ideas

even though the people around you are not as musically inclined they still might have a creative outlet that you could spark be more open to merge

Jul 14, 2008, Open your eyes to ideas

You don't always have to read it in books or see it in movies there's always a new way to find that hundred dollar idea you can find it in a

Jul 14, 2008, your lyrics dont have to rhyme to sound good

I've been writing a few song's and I've had better response with the ones that dont have continuous rhyming in

Jul 14, 2008, Share Your Music with Others

Do not be afraid to share your music or lyrics with friends or fellow musicians. They may convince you that what you thought was a bad song, is

Jul 14, 2008, Sing with your heart

Dont just write songs that dont even make sense to you or your audience. Be sure to really tell how you feel about things. Even write songs about past

Jul 14, 2008, Beginners?

i too am a beginner. if you have trouble finding the right emtion to write about search your mind about the goods and the bads that you have

Jul 14, 2008, The Three 'C' S

I use what I call the 3 C s of songwriting. Concrete- make your lyrics paint mental pictures. these are the songs that stick in peoples minds. We all

Jun 10, 2008, My Life

Well from when i was little i havent had it great and i just had so much i needed to get out but i did the silly thing and kept it all in.So one day

Jun 10, 2008, Why I write my songs

I write to let go of any emotions I have inside. Whether I'm happy, or sad, or I just got through a break up. IT's not so much for other's to

Jun 10, 2008, Oh my god! what have you done? Where is it?

where is the section for lyrics feedback All my friends were so joly good and exicited when you had this section for lyric feedback. We used to race

Jun 10, 2008, Writing Lyrics

If you can't think of any lyrics to your song. There these are some tips: O Sometimes if you just forget about writing maybe a while later you will

Jun 10, 2008, Keep ALL of your lyrics

Sometimes you come up with extra lyrics that you don't need in a song, or have some extra lyrics that you took out of another song. Well keep them! I

Jun 10, 2008, Diversifying your songs

Stay away from your guitar while you are writing! When you pick up your guitar you have a tendancy to play the same things over and over again.

Jun 10, 2008, At random!!

Hey, once I was watering flowers and an idea just BLAM hit me, if you don't have the note book or recorder in you presence start singing (quietly so

Jun 3, 2008, Cheap Start

A friend of mind came over with a hand held MP3 digital voice recorder and recorded my band playing. He sent me a copy by internet and the quality was

Jun 3, 2008, Townes Van Zandt (Greatest Songwriters)

Actually it's probably a three-way tie between Dylan , Leo Cohen , and Townes , but just for the omission I'm gonna talk him up... Surely you've heard

Jun 2, 2008, songwriting originality?

okay really now, i have heard bookoos of songs about loooove gone wrong and suicidal tendencies and hopelessness, etc, they are all starting to sound

Jun 2, 2008, Songwriters, Share Your Opinions.

Songwriters, share your opinions on songwriter related topics.

May 22, 2008, home studio what it takes

first study all you can on the subject go to places like guitar center get to know there pro audio people know that you done your home work lets begin

May 20, 2008, How holly writes her songs

(How holly writes her songs) my life... its all about my life everything i write about is eather about how i feel at the time or what the is

May 13, 2008, how to write a "rhymic" song?

me and my friends are making a girl group together, but they want to make stuff more like pop and hip-hop and rap! and I'm a great song writer...well

May 9, 2008, How to write a smooth R and B song

Could anybody here please tell me how to write a smooth R and B song?

May 4, 2008, Songwriting tip - Work with what already works for you...

I find its actually easier (Than strating from scratch) to rewrite the lyrics to one of your favourite songs, so that the tune is the same but the

May 4, 2008, I Need A Man... With A Chainsaw

Thus begins the lyric for my I Need A Man, a song I almost didn't write because I thought it was about the stupidest lyric I'd heard in my whole life.

Apr 30, 2008, How B3MRP writes his songs

I went on a binge and concentrated on just writing lyrics for the past 4 months. I knew the more a person practices on anything the better they

Apr 30, 2008, my tips for writing songs

#1- think of things that are going on around the world or even in your home,community,or state,town,ect. #2-bend them into some kind of poem or

Apr 30, 2008, Don't put it aside - a songwriting tip

If you get an idea for a song, write it down ASAP(As Soon As Possible). If you leave it in your head, you might forget some keys points or lines. I

Apr 21, 2008, Just do it - (Tip for Writing Lyrics)

When an idea comes write it down no matter how bad you think it is. Don't worry about spelling or grammar until after it is finished. Frist let the

Apr 20, 2008, song writing and lyric writing diferent or similar?

Are song writing and lyric writing diferent? I always thought that writing a song involved knowing how to read and write sheet music where writing