We’re going to listen with a critical ear to the production and instruments in a recorded song. Even if you are not a musician, or not familiar with various instruments used in music production, being a good listener and recognizing the role each instrument plays in a song will ALWAYS give you an advantage when [...]
|
||||||
If you're into apps, these won't necessarily make you a better songwriter, but they might be fun and even inspirational!
Evolver.fm has apps for songwriting for just about every platform.
Click HERE to check them out! |
Image via Wikipedia Recently someone commented on one of my blogs that they would like to know how to write a song without an instrument. You would think that because there is music involved, it would be next to impossible to write a song without any musical “ability”. Well, even if we are not [...] Image by clevercupcakes via Flickr Contrast, as defined in the dictionary, is: To set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences. Black and white are two contrasting “shades” (they’re not colours!) and can be used as a visual way to describe contrast in songwriting. When you’re first writing a song (and [...] Image via Wikipedia © I.Woloshen Here’s an email I received: Dear Irene, I play guitar (lefty), just started, and i find it sometimes abit hard to get songs i like (like, by famous people, from the radio, whatever) abit hard to play, because i can’t get the exact tune. So i wanted to start [...] © I.Woloshen In a more recent article “Don’t Bore Us, Get To the Chorus“, we discussed the obvious importance of that part of a song. But while the chorus might be considered the “sexiest” or most pivotal part of the song…the verse is what really sets the chorus up to succeed. Behind every successful chorus [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 IJ's Songwriting Tips Blog - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa
|
||||||
