Songwriting tips...

[Eeva_r&b]

WRITE WITH YOURSELF
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Of course technically speaking, you can't be a songwriting team
'with yourself' (unless you really do have a split personality) but
there IS a way to actually write 'with yourself'.

It's a technique most of us use without even realizing.

Have you ever started to write lyrics and didn't finish them? Have
you ever started to write a tune and then you just 'left it'? Have
you ever written a few chords only to not know where to go next?

Of course you have. I have too, on many occasions.

So often these unfinished idea's are left in a notebook or recorded
somewhere and then never to be seen again. This is where 'self
collaboration' comes in.

Usually, we barely remember what we were working on back then and
this is why you should go BACK to these idea's. So much time would
have elapsed and you will feel like you're writing with someone
else's idea.

You will have the advantage on gaining a perspective that you
didn't have the first time around.

Funny enough, with the gap of time, we can almost always tell why
we couldn't finish the song in the first place. But now we see the
flaws and all the cracks that we completely missed first time
around - and it now seems so obvious and apparent.

So, learn to write with yourself. Make it your secret weapon.