How To Create Your Own Personal Songwriting Guide
If you have a computer and access to the Internet, you can easily create your very own songwriting guide for free by using valuable songwriting articles and archiving them in a personal binder.
In a previous post I talked about the wealth of free songwriting information on the Internet and how webmasters put forth great efforts to make this available to you!
What you’ll need is a large, 3-ring binder with dividers, and access to a decent hole-puncher.
To begin creating your personal songwriting guide, research the following topics on the Internet, print out the pages you believe can help you, punch holes in them, then use dividers to categorize each of the following topics:
1. How to Create a Melody
2. Rhyming Tips And Techniques
3. Song Verse Development
4. Pre-chorus Tips
5. Chorus Development
6. Second Verse tips
7. How to Write a Bridge
8. Song Forms (how to choose, etc.)
9. Song Title (how to create, etc.)
10. How To Create a Song Hook
These are just the basics to start! If you take the time to make your own songwriting guide, you’ll be forced to read every article before you choose one, and you’ll expand your songwriting tremendously! Even advanced songwriters stand to benefit from this by picking and choosing advanced topics such as “songwriting tips to create contrast,” “creating powerful opening verse lines,” etc.
The fun part of building a songwriting guide is you’re able to access many different “point of views” from many different resources. So, although many articles will contain similar content on each topic, you will definitely find some gems of information that you would never have found if you hadn’t taken the time to read articles on the same topics by different authors.
Enjoy!
