Tips for beginner songwriters and tricks for the seasoned professional. Here you will find the blog posts on learning how to write songs, how edit and improve your songs and learn things you’ll probably want to know as you write your next song.
Why Your Song Titles Matter
First featured in Flypaper by Soundfly! Most of the time, a song title is directly taken from the chorus or hook. It can often be an afterthought, leaving songs untitled as needed. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with this, but if you want to be writing songs that are impactful, grab your listeners and unique,…
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How to have that awkward conversation about splits with your co-writer
That conversation about splits in never fun, but it’s really necessary. Splits are how you choose to split the ownership of your song between your co-writer(s). If you’re a professional songwriter or working with someone who is—if you’re releasing your song, you fall into this category—you need to talk about splits. And if you’re like…
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How to Write a Happy Song
It seems that every single songwriter I’ve come across has a lot of difficulty in writing happy songs—myself included! There’s something about them that doesn’t always feel authentic to us. I was well along my songwriting journey until I started to feel comfortable with writing them. This is the key, if you really think about…
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How to Topline as a Traditional Singer Songwriter
Collaborating is a great way to write new songs. While co-writing is fantastic, toplining is becoming one of the most popular ways of writing songs together. Writing songs with a producer is definitely different than writing with another writer; often, a producer might have some emotional ideas that lead to their track, but you as…
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How to Figure Out Your Writing Process
It can be very helpful for songwriters to understand themselves, especially their writing process. Some only start with lyrics, some can only write at night, some can only write when they’re falling asleep. Some will claim not to have a writing process, which in itself is also important to know. Songs or songwriting sessions can…
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How to Write Strong Hooks in Your Songs
by Giselle Fletcher This is an excerpt from Giselle’s new course Secrets of Songwriting, available now. Strong hooks are created by the repetition of a small musical riff. Hooks should appear everywhere in your songs to make them catchy and memorable, don’t save them just for the chorus. Grab us right from the start of your…
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Do All Your Songs Sound the Same?
If you’ve read a few posts here and there, you know that I love writing a little bit every day. But sometimes when I’m in the groove and finish many songs in succession, I listen back and realize they’re sounding similar. This especially happened when I’ve honed on writing in a particular genre. It’s great…
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How to Make Your Rhymes Sound Less Forced
Rhyming can sometimes be the stickiest part of songwriting. When I’m writing, either by myself or with a co-writer, being unable to find a good rhyme can leave us picking through words for a long time, sometimes even an hour. That’s a tough frame of mind to be in! On one hand, you don’t want…
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How to Match Metaphors in Your Songs
We’ve all been there: we’ve written a song, the metaphors make sense within the context and they express your idea well. We bring that song to a mentor or friend and they frown, a little confused: they’ve been thrown off by the fact that the Verse was talking about city life, but the Chorus mentioned…
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