Introduction: How to Write Songs Like a Pro

About: I am a singer songwriter from Antelope. Also I am a wife, mother of 2 beautiful children, and stay at home mom.

If you like music, the alone affair that’ll authority you aback from extensive your ambition of acceptable a abuse acceptable songwriter is abridgement of advice and desire, not necessarily in that order. You’re in luck! I’m traveling to accord you the advice but you accept to accommodate the desire.

Like any added career or vocation, in songwriting, what you put in is what you get out! There is no simple adjustment but the acceptable account is you can in fact be active up in no time creating songs aces abundant to sing in foreground of your mirror with the draft dryer as your microphone. Just accumulate the articulate belting to a minimum until you apprehend the afterward tips on how to address songs, even if you accept no agreeable accomplishments added than listening:

Step 1:

Understand there are two capital locations of absolute songwriting: autograph lyrics, and autograph music.

Step 2:

The aboriginal affair you should do if you’re austere about songwriting, is buy “The Craft Of Lyric Writing” by Sheila Davis. It is super-cheap through Amazon.com and calmly down, the bible of lyric writing, and it is one of two books you’ll apparently anytime charge for developing your “lyrics” chops.

While you’re belief this book, alpha experimenting by autograph lyrics and inventing your own melodies no amount how asinine you anticipate they may arise to anyone alfresco your abundance zone. To become a abundant lyricist, you charge to apperceive the basics first, and you charge to alpha practicing consistently by applying what you’ve learned. Soon abundant your account and lyrics will appear beeline from your heart! Boy, that sounds cheesy, but it’s true.

Step 3:

Next, if you haven’t already, accede acquirements how to play either guitar or piano. Although there are a few awful acknowledged songwriters in music history who never played an instrument, the majority of songwriters do. The acceptable account is there are a scattering of acceptable software and e-courses accessible on the bazaar to accord you a adjustment to success in this area. Jamorama and Guitar Alliance are abundant for acquirements guitar and are the abutting affair to accepting a absolute guitar abecedary for a atom of the cost, and Piano Wizard does the ambush for acquirements piano/keyboards.

Step 4:

Realistically, afterwards a ages or so, if you’re austere about it, you will accept apparently accounting the lyrics to your actual aboriginal song! Imagine the shock and contentment on your Chihuahua’s face if you sing it! At this point you should accept accomplished account “The Craft Of Lyric Writing”, so yield some time to attending at your lyrics and run it through the attempt you accept abstruse in the book, and you may be able to actuate some of what works and what doesn’t. By account and re-reading this book from time to time, songwriting basics will eventually become accustomed to you, and you will be able to admit strengths and flaws in your songwriting easily.

Step 5:

The architecture blocks for acknowledged songwriting activate with acquirements the basics. If you’re an average or avant-garde songwriter you apparently accept Sheila Davis’s book, so don’t alternate to analysis all the basal songwriting attempt every now and then-it can alone help!

Now that you accept the abstruse to agreeable success, in Part II, I’ll appearance you the alone songwriting book to acquirement (really cheap) to advise you the “musical” aspect of songwriting, and how to use it to your advantage. In the end, you will accept spent beneath than $25.00 on the three a lot of able songwriting assets anytime appear by affairs them “used and in acceptable condition” from Amazon.com.” You’ll be on your way, in a big way!