5 Songwriting Virtues That Are Older Than the English Language By Nicholas Tozier One of the toughest things about writing songs is knowing how to judge your own work. How do you know when you’ve written a good song? How do you know when a song needs rewriting? The answers are never simple. Any given song has dozens of moving parts: melody, rhyme scheme, song structure, chord progressions, lyric content—it goes on and on. There are dozens of different ways to Continue
Songwriting thought of the Day
Is your lyric too long?
- Do you know the appropriate amount of words for a commercial pop lyric?
- Do you know what bearing the tempo of the song has on the amount of lyrics you can use?
- Is your lyric actually a lyric, or is it a poem, a list, or an essay?,,,,
- Did you know the average amount of verses for a pop song at the moment = 2 , whilst the average amount of choruses = 3
- Are you lyrics too 'wordy'?Here's a great article on this subject >>
