Songwriting Tips - 12 Tips to Write Better Songs

Songwriting is a potentially very lucrative field for a musician. If you want to get going with it are some tips that can help you write better songs.
Learn from hit songs: One comment technique to become good at anything in life is to, "Copy from the best." The same principles apply in songwriting. Become proficient at studying popular songs. Figure out what makes does songs so popular, and so successful. Learn how the most popular songs are structured so you get an idea of what people like.
Create beautiful melodies: The majority of good songs tend to have one characteristic in common, "they have contagious melodies." This is crucial for good songwriting. As a songwriter myself-I always start my songs with the melody first. Then I create the lyrics around it.
Learn Theory: Music theory is an important part of understanding songwriting. You don't have to be classically trained, but learning the basics will help.
Branch Out: Songwriters don't only write for genres they like personally. Learn about the conventions of other types of music.
Open Mindedness: Be open-minded about working with musicians that you'd never listen to. Any work you can get is a good thing.
Partner with a musician: This can get you credits on their CDs, which goes a long way toward getting new work.
Licensing and Copyrighting: Learn about these important legal aspects of the music business. They ensure that you get paid!
Other Venues: Television and film are viable venues for songwriters.
Practice: Practice writing songs across many different genres so you learn the conventions of each.
A Hook: Just about every successful song out there has a great hook. Learn what makes a great hook and practice writing them. Some songs are entirely based around the hook.
Keep a journal: keeping a journal is a great idea to learn how to understand human emotions. Channeling emotions is a crucial skill to learn for a songwriter, (keep in mind that good songs are often very emotional). Songwriters that create a habit of writing emotions on paper often tend to report that writing a journal will help immensely to write better lyrics.
Use strong lyrics: Become skilled at writing deep lyrics for your songs. Stay away from empty words. It is a fact, that nowadays many popular songs lack good lyrics-and they still manage to become "Hit" songs, (maybe just because they have a short, catchy hook). However, those songs will not last long. Songs that are known to last years getting played in radio stations, generating lots of royalties-are songs that contain powerful lyrics, and strong messages.

Octavio Patxot
Singer/Songwriter
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The Talent - How Talent Is Found

Talent. One word that is laden with such richness and beauty and yet a word that is oftentimes used too flippantly. For Talent is a gift which is bestowed upon a person to share with mankind. To "find talent" is not difficult for the person who possesses it. Talent will not be denied, neither will it be silenced nor tossed aside like an old garment. And it can never be killed, for Talent is a living energy that resides deep within a person's psyche, in the very soul. The person born with a talent has a deep knowing, a yearning if you will, that there is something which he or she has that is exceedingly special and precious, and which has to be identified and lived out and enjoyed and shared, in order for the person to be whole, and to authentically fulfill the purpose for which this Talent was bestowed upon him or her.
Yet sadly and all too frequently, in the hustle and bustle of life's crushing responsibilities a person will endeavor to ignore their Talent. Perhaps it was told them that there could surely be no place for such frivolity as to nourish a burning desire to play the guitar or to compose the most beautiful music. Such continued negative input, especially from those nearest and dearest can result in the person denying their Talent, thus forcing him or her to exist within a shell of dry emptiness, ready to crack and break into a thousand pieces from pure soul sadness and the excruciating pain of being denied the ability to fulfill the reason for which they and their Talent were born.
I know of such a person. A born musician, a deeply sensitive and intuitive person. A child prodigy who played the guitar by ear. His nimble little fingers sometimes racing across the frets, other times caressing the strings of the guitar birthing the music once again of the great composers. As an adult he was denied the chance to nurture his Talent. He bowed to the pressure of Talent's persecutors and pursued the other "sensible" roads of reason which were being trodden daily by the herd. His authentic self was cast aside with his Talent. But all the while, underneath the ice-cold sobriety of his dreary day to day life, his Talent was vibrantly alive, never just gently nudging at him. No it was pushing and pulling at him, it was pounding his very being, screaming to be allowed to be expressed, to be free...
And now as an adult, with his guitar held lovingly within his arms he quietly begins to pick at the strings, his demeanor changes, it softens, there comes a sense of lightness around him. Talent will not, cannot be silenced. His fingers once again begin their journey on this beautiful instrument. The music that he makes is his own, and it is music which is as a balm for the broken souls of the world.
Now he is complete, now he is fulfilled, now he is truly his authentic self. Now he is alive.
We cannot hide Talent, for Talent will always be found!

Maxine Soakai is a Music Artist, Singer, Songwriter & Musician. She currently is recording a Pop album and recently finished her first single called, Stand In The Rain. She definitely has a special gift to reach out to people with her writing and music. You can find Maxine at http://maxinesoakai.com/ to learn more about her.

Success Secret - Happiness Is A Choice

People search for keys to success. Some say it is all about hard work, some attribute success to patience and perseverance, some simply credit it all to destiny. Perspectives differ but everyone agrees that success doesn't come easy.
But one misconception many people have about success is about its relation to happiness. That success leads to happiness is a common belief. And one can say it is a myth.
Success does not necessarily lead to happiness. You can have all the success, fame and riches you desire and still not be happy with what you have. Happiness does not come from abundance or opulence. Happiness is essentially a state of mind and rather than success being a cause for happiness, one can say, happiness is always a cause for success.
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen"
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ros
Happiness is a choice. You can be happy no matter what the circumstances are. The biggest struggles of life, the deepest pains, and toughest challenges do not have the power to tear you away from choosing to be happy despite everything. You may say this is impossible. How can one remain happy in the midst of pain?
You can if you approach pain with a positive attitude, as an obstacle or challenge which has been put in your path to test your resilience and stoicism, you will be able to face it square on rather than let it climb all over you and drown you in depression.
It is all a matter of your own thoughts
Happiness is not something that depends upon another person or situations either. You have the power to create things that make you happy. Many difficult or sad situations arise every now and then. It is all up to you how you choose to feel on any given day.
For instance, if you are handling too many responsibilities, your success in fulfilling each one of them will depend on how you balance the various responsibilities and approach each one as per its importance. If you let yourself become confused, hassled and disorganized, the problems that are actually opportunities in work clothes will seem all too difficult to handle. The opportunities will slip past you, and you will just be looking at the problems and not what's behind them. It is not important how you look at things but what you see there.
Turn your mind towards positive thinking. Decide to finish the jobs according to priorities, spare a few moments to absorb the beauty that surrounds you, count your blessings, and read some inspirational messages. Create your own happiness.
Remember, the amazing thing about life is that, you choose what you allow into it. You choose how things affect you, you choose how you react. Happiness is a Choice. Make it. Keep smiling!

Noah Brown is a freelance writer who writes extensively on parenting children by building stress-free enjoyable parent child relationships. She also writes on motivational videos and inspirational quotes which provide useful relationship advice and parenting tips.