Songwriter Confessions #1

Looking up this week by getting the support of reggae sound like St Ann rather than St Felicity, I spotted a small dark mist in the usual corner behind the left monitor speaker. Sometimes I believe absolutely that this is my best muse, back from a pizza run to the outside starbelt. Or maybe just the golden ring around Uranus. Anyhoo ... It seems that the inspiration in the dark way: Keith Richards more than Cliff Richard, and I feel the need to write something that involves leather, whips and a snare drum that sounds like Pavarotti hitting the water from the top of the board. I dig out my file called heavy riffs that AC / DC has disappeared under the driver's seat. It would help if the word MURDER appeared in the first line of poetry: that it always gets out of Bowie knives. As Sam Goldwyn said: Start with the exploding volcano and build from there to the summit of

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I can not stress enough how important the first two lines of the first verse, in any song.This is a place where artists can set the hook in the miniscule attention span or not. If you are a confident smile their way into the song and the style I like to call the captain cliche, you've probably lost them the second guitar comes in. Please avoid the first verse that goes like this: Ooh I love you, that's true , what should I do, baby I know without you, all my dreams are down the toilet ... blah blah ...

who are still awake? The only thing that can save only that the song will be strong enough to beat the flip Lazarus from the tomb, and over the horizon. I never thought that the years I spent writing ad copy for various ad agencies will be worth so much to me now. rule in advertising is when you write a headline, you've spent your dollar 80C. It's got to hook them. It's gotta say something else about the topic you've heard a million times. Take non-stop topic of love (also known as LURV ... nasty ... and bumping Uglies) If I taught songwriting, one of the first projects I would ask should be: write a song about love, but it's different interesting.Make . Make the listener say, I never thought of it that way before. Now, Paul McCartney, as known, does not have to work as hard as the rest of us. So he calls it: Another Silly Love Song. With the chorus that goes: iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou. Phew, Macca ... time to open the windows!

Here's how I do it: my song is called: if you were ice cream ... The first verse is: If you have ice cream, I'd like to eat with a teaspoon ... If you were a star, I'd go to meet you, halfway to the moon ... I think a lot more interesting than Paulie, but hey, he is known, and I just started beating on the door. For more examples of how I approach the first verse and song in general, scoot along on my new page, or click on the link below.

must come into town for some new acoustic guitar strings. They did not change them for a year, and number. there is no direct link between underwear rotation and guitar strings. A-One ... two ... three ...

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