Your #1 Free Resource For Innovative Songwriting Tips And Techniques

Learn how to write songs like the pros! This step-by-step songwriting guide will benefit the absolute beginner to advanced songwriter by exposing songwriting tips & tricks pro songwriters have been using successfully for years.

As a staff songwriter for Warner/Chappell, I learned much from more experienced songwriters, but the biggest lesson I learned was that songwriting is not supposed to be so complicated! Great songwriters spend much more time digging into their hearts and minds than reference books because they already have solid basic knowledge of the easy-to-learn material contained in this web site. Please Bookmark This Site

There are a ton of useful books, guides, and web sites with excellent songwriting tips, songwriting help and advice, but most are unorganized and very confusing. I developed this web site to give you the simple, step-by-step necessary tools to write songs the way pros consistently do. To write and record the next big hit!

No matter what style you write songs in, from pop to rock to r&b,from country to jazz and everything in between, if you follow this free guide section by section, you'll be amazed at how this simple songwriting blueprint will form the foundation of your success for years to come.

Most every great song has an original or memorable song title with one universally appealing theme. You'll learn how to come up with your own song title ideas by using effective songwriting tips as well as the right songwriting tools.

Once you have a song title, learn the different song forms and how you can easily train yourself to recognize how the first few ideas and lines should dictate which one you will use for each song you write.

With a good song title and song form picked out, use the Rhymezone website, the most complete online rhyming dictionary available, and use the related words category to build yourself a worksheet to create ideas, titles, and lines when you write songs.

See how using Rhymezone to create a worksheet makes it easy to learn how to write a hook/chorus before creating the verse, and why anyone who likes and listens to music can write songs without playing an instrument or reading music.

See how a prechorus can add tension and interest and learn about the tried and true effect of sometimes putting in a bridge section before the final chorus to give it the extra push and excitement it needs.

Finally, use the print out guide for this entire guide as a handy reference to write songs easily.

Although reading and writing music is advantageous it is not required, and many great, successful songs have been written by people with no formal musical training at all.

Anyone who likes music can write songs without knowing how to read music if they know the basics and a few songwriting tips, secrets, and tricks because music is a "hearing" art that we've been exposed to our entire lives.

This pro songwriting guide will benefit you if you do or if you don't read music.