How To Write Good Songs - Tips In Creating Music As A Guitarist

Are you a guitarist and want to know how to write good songs? As a guitarist and singer, it can be a little intimidating trying to come up with your very first tune. The process can be long and frustrating, but it can also be fun once you break through the creative wall and good songs start flowing out. A good song has two main ingredients, which are a great melody and awesome lyrics.

Before picking up your guitar and starting the process of writing a new song, an important tip to remember is input before output. This means that you first have to listen to songs that you like and which will inspire you to create good music. This is exactly the reason music artists sound like one another in their own genres. Artists inspire one another and challenge one another in writing music.

The first step in songwriting is to create a playlist of music that you like and how you would like your songs to sound. Listen to that playlist every day and just absorb the music. The playlist of songs will soon inspire you and melodies will start popping into your head. When this starts to happen, many tunes will be coming out of your head, and it'll be overwhelming in trying to remember how they all sound.

Therefore, what to remember is to always carry around a digital voice recorder. When a tune forms in your head, take out your recorder and lay it down by singing the melody or by playing it on your guitar. Soon you'll have a whole batch of melodies of potential songs pre-recorded and will make the song writing process a little easier.

During all this, what you should also be doing is coming up with and writing down lyrics for the songs you will be developing. Inspiration for writing lyrics can come from anywhere as well. This can happen while reading a book with lots of descriptive words and creative writing, or it can come from watching a movie. And of course it will also come from your inspirational playlist of music.

Carry around a small notepad or use your cell phone notepad for jotting down lyrics. When it finally comes time to start writing songs, take your guitar and take out your voice recorder and notepad of lyrics. Find and piece together three melodies that go well together, which will be used as the verse, chorus, and bridge. When you're done, you can then use your lyrics to come up with the singing hooks. Soon you'll have many good songs that family, friends and fans will enjoy.

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