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Writing Good Songs

I have heard so many theories on writing good songs. Examples...Three easy steps to write a hit, the sure way to a number one tune on the charts, learn in 10 minutes how to create a top ten tune, do this , do that. E-books on the guaranteed formula for a hit. The list is endless!

If you look at all the music out there. If you look at the popular songs that are all over the radio. Do they sound the same? Do they have the same formula? Do they have the same root of content? Beat? Arrangement? Topic? The answer is...no. Most of the 'hits' have awesome advertising and brainwash effect when you hear it on the radio 30 times in one day until finally people say ''gee that song I heard today is stuck in my head'' Some singers are great, some are screamers, some sound like too much whiskey and cigarettes, they are all different. There are 'top songs' of every genre of music. Not every one of them have the same ingredients and same claim to fame formulas.

Personally I think when you start to construct a tune, rip it apart, turn it into something that might fit on the radio, try to follow someone elses lead, ect, it isn't yours anymore. Positive reconstruction is great, but to rip it apart until you don't even know what it is that you started with? Or until you don't even feel the beat because it's turned into disco with a touch of hindi music when it was once soft rock? You lose what you originally started. What you originally felt or thought. Sure, that way can work too...but come on!

I think the best songs out there are the ones that make you 'feel'. The ones that make you relate in one way or another. If you can 'catch' someones emotion or grab them with your words that will take them back to a time or place in their life, or stimulate a memory or activate a fantasy. Thats the root power to success in writing songs.

It is all about ''connecting'' with the listener. It's about making them feel and relate.

There is no ''one way'' to success. It is what you connect with and If you can connect others to it as well. If you can connect with a feeling within yourself and put it into words. Somewhere out there in the world there's bound to be others who will relate. Maybe one? Maybe one million.

Feel it, write it down, imagine it, build it from there. Don't jump ahead and rip it apart because it isn't being done the 'text book way''. Success is through simplicity. Make others feel what you feel. Connect.

That's my opinion on the basics of writing songs :)

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