Every time you write a song, you’re communicating something to your audience. When we think of that word communicating, we automatically think of lyrics, because communication and words go hand in hand. But in good songwriting, everything you write plays a role in communicating. For example, if you want to write a nostalgic song, you need nostalgic lyrics, […]
I’m really pleased to notice (or at least I think I notice) that the quality of lyrics has been becoming an important sought-after aspect of good mainstream songwriting. It seems only a few years back that everyone was talking about chord progressions. The term “killer chord progression” was one I’d hear in many musical conversations. Trying […]
If you can’t express or sum up the main concept of your song — what the song’s all about — in one sentence or less, you’re going to have trouble connecting to your audience. Lyrics may take the listener on a journey, but there needs to be one concise way of describing that journey. It’s like […]
Written by Gary Ewer, author also of “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6-eBook Bundle. _______________ My book “Beating Songwriters’s Block: Jump-Start Your Words and Music,” has recently been released in hardcover on the US Amazon website. In answer to several questions I’ve received lately, of the “what will this book do for me?” variety, I […]
