Tips to rejuvenate your songwriting! These are abbreviations from a panel of amazing songwriters listed below, enjoy!
1. Collaborate
A very small percentage of songs that make the billboard top 200 were written by one writer. Collaborations are the norm in the pop and country industry. Some songs have 6 writers but most have 2 or 3 total. Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate. Find great people to work with, and plus it will be more fun. (Lindy Robbins)
2. Don’t Think About It
For top-line writer Lindy Robbins developing an idea is all about feeling and less thinking. Peel yourself away from the yellow legal pad and get out of your head! If you have an idea, try performing some menial tasks why singing it in your head. Take a walk, go shopping, grab a bite and just sing it without thinking. Try singing it ten times, each time adding or subtracting to the idea.
3. Inspiration from Feeling
Inspiration should come from feeling. Inspiration can birth itself from a complete instrumental track or even from one word. Whatever it takes to make you “feel” it. Try keeping titles written down, and take them out if you’re having a bad writing day. Also see number 2 if you are hitting a block.
4. Telling the Story
Never tell what’s happening, show it. Here’s an example the moderator gave:
“I broke up with her today” = Telling
“I told her those words and tears rolled down her face” = showing
“I reach across the bed to the empty space, the dent is not there in the pillow” = feeling
And if you are a producer or a collaborator who is working with an artist who is “telling” and not “showing” the story, start asking them questions: “Why did you break up with them?” “What did they do?” “How did that make you feel?”. Dig deeper.
(Joe Solo - Macy Gray, Thom Russo - Enrique Iglesias, Lindy Robbins - One Direction, Thomas Golubić - The Walking Dead)
1. Collaborate
A very small percentage of songs that make the billboard top 200 were written by one writer. Collaborations are the norm in the pop and country industry. Some songs have 6 writers but most have 2 or 3 total. Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate. Find great people to work with, and plus it will be more fun. (Lindy Robbins)
2. Don’t Think About It
For top-line writer Lindy Robbins developing an idea is all about feeling and less thinking. Peel yourself away from the yellow legal pad and get out of your head! If you have an idea, try performing some menial tasks why singing it in your head. Take a walk, go shopping, grab a bite and just sing it without thinking. Try singing it ten times, each time adding or subtracting to the idea.
3. Inspiration from Feeling
Inspiration should come from feeling. Inspiration can birth itself from a complete instrumental track or even from one word. Whatever it takes to make you “feel” it. Try keeping titles written down, and take them out if you’re having a bad writing day. Also see number 2 if you are hitting a block.
4. Telling the Story
Never tell what’s happening, show it. Here’s an example the moderator gave:
“I broke up with her today” = Telling
“I told her those words and tears rolled down her face” = showing
“I reach across the bed to the empty space, the dent is not there in the pillow” = feeling
And if you are a producer or a collaborator who is working with an artist who is “telling” and not “showing” the story, start asking them questions: “Why did you break up with them?” “What did they do?” “How did that make you feel?”. Dig deeper.
(Joe Solo - Macy Gray, Thom Russo - Enrique Iglesias, Lindy Robbins - One Direction, Thomas Golubić - The Walking Dead)
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