RE: Looking for rock; blues songs

Songwriting thought of the Day

Is your lyric structured correctly?

Lyrics are designed to work with songs, therefore your lyric needs to have a song structure. Are you completely familar with song structures? For commercial, pop, country, rock, soul, hip hop songs, you need to have clearly defined sections. This is the most common song structure:

  • Verse 1
  • Chorus
  • Verse 2
  • Chorus
  • Bridge
  • Chorus
So when writing lyrics,  you should indicate the song structure sections on your lyric. This way the composer knows how your lyric is intended to work. Here's a great article on this very subject >>  


RE: Looking for rock; blues songs

Mike U. wrote: Hi everyone,  I’m a male vocalist and expert guitarist with touring experience in USA, Europe, etc.  I have been in a signed band (a 1 hit wonder band; our video even made it as far as MTV Hits several years ago). but I’m not really a big wig or doing anything major since moving to Atlanta a couple years ago. I’m on my own writing music but the melodies and lyrics take me YEARS rather than hours to do. The Continue