Improve your songwriting skill... various songwriting ideas.

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J Funk from Adelaide, Australia writes: Don't think... Clear your mind and try not to think of anything or pretend you're being possesed or zombified (ya know the whole mindless thing), put your pen to paper and Bob C. Cock's yer Uncle! Lyrics! Works for me. May not always be efficiant but you can sometimes pick up some good stuff. Could turn out to be Gold Jerry, Gold!

Nick from CHI, United States writes: To do research on the subject that you are talking about, get a few movies or books and once you know enough, write about it. Ok. Good luck.

Anita from White Plains, USA writes: It really helps to have friends or someone else who can play the same instrument as you. Sometimes if you write a complicated melody, it's hard to write words to it without recording and playing it back. But it changes the dynamic as playing and singing together allows for intervals and pauses to be made. I love to have a friend who plays guitar around so I can teach them my chord progression and we can play together and if i get an idea, I can jot it down while they keep playing. It also really helps to layer melodies with variated chord progressions, much better in real time. Also really helps to have friends who understand their own musical strengths, certain people are better lyricists than musicians and vice versa but if both come together, then you have an unbeatable meld of lyrics and melody.

Robert from Houston, USA writes: Songs about gaining love or losing it are very personal and let listeners understand what you're going through. Let them know how your heart sings or aches. If you can have the listeners cry tears of joy or pain with you, then you've got a hit!

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