How To Write A Song - Part 1 - Your Goal

In the introduction to this series I talked a little bit about the overall aspects of songwriting, now I will delve into it in finer detail. First off is preparing and finding a start to the creative process.

Creative process?
Yes, because this is what it ultimately is about. Creation of a song. Creation of art. Creation of that inner something (thought or feeling) that wants to come out and manifest itself through music.


It can be hard to get inspired on demand (in that little time you had cut out to work on this new song) so always be ready with your notebook, guitar, recording device or whatever you use to plot down ideas. You don't want to miss out when inspiration strikes as you never know when it will strike again.

I remember many times where I've been in a place and time where I didn't have the tools to transfer my inspiration into a format that lasts when my memory doesn't. Don't do that same mistake. Sometimes it comes back and sometimes it doesn't. But why take a chance.

How To Write A Song - Series

I'd like to share my perspective on how to write a song. How to pull together life experiences, melodies, mixing of styles, emotions, impress by technique etc. into a song that will move listeners. I don't have any golden recipe or a scientific method but I feel I have a few thoughts to share with you that might help as a guide in your creative process. It's such an amazing thing that we can put our feelings and thoughts into music and I don't want to squander the magnificence of it too much, but I want to break it down to provide some tools that you can use in your own songwriting.

This will be a "How to write a song" series divided into parts. Stay tuned for part one which will be about setting your goals for the song, finding out who you're writing for, why you want to write the song and create a framework around the project making it way easier to move forward and be creative.

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Below I will be posting links to each part:
Part 1 - Your Goal
Part 2 - Turning Inspiration Into a Song

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May Album Update

Steadily we tread forward on the path of completion of the album. We're focusing on getting Through Your Eyes into finished state before we put too much energy on the other tunes and we're pretty close in having a sound I really like.

While I had another full sound scape in my head when I wrote the song, this has turned out to be something more powerful than I thought I could make.

In this blog post you will get the benefit of hearing a preview of where we are at the moment as well as a few words on the process of the recording sessions.