Tag: Chord Progression

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Do you need to have music before you can write the lyrics or do you work the music around the lyrics?

This is one of the most common questions beginning songwriters ask. Keep in mind that songwriting is a unique craft that bring words and music into unison.  Words are matched up with a melody to create a song.

The short answer is you can begin either way.  You can begin with the lyrics or begin with the melody.  Every songwriter has a preference.  There is no right or wrong answer in regards to how to begin songs.  Regardless of how you begin songs the most important is to get started.

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The Learn How to Write Songs website has many tools to help stimulate songwriting ideas. Here is a collection of those tool in one single post. Keep in mind these tools were not created to automatically write a song for you, they were created to help songwriters acquire ideas to help write a song. Sometimes all that is needed is a simple idea to get started.

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Songwriting is a craft. To be good at writing songs the songwriter must nurture the skills required. There are several steps in the process of writing songs. Apply each of these to you process.

Although the information in this article is presented in a sequential fashion; you don’t always need to follow it. It is possible to deviate from the order. Actually you may find that once you have a title that you will want to revise the character descriptions. Or you may need to modify the melody to better fit the lyric. The process of songwriting is somewhat organic in that each part is intertwined with another part. Every rewrite will cause the song to evolve. There are many other factors that go into writing a song. The ones presented here will give you a springboard to start writing and composing songs.

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