Art of Songwriting
Posted in Songwriting on Jun 29th, 2008
Songwriting is an art form. It is a medium by which the songwriter portrays ideas, visions, thoughts and feelings through music. Since before recorded time (No pun intended), peoples have been creating songs to tell stories, celebrate events, and display feelings. However, because of the changes that humankind has gone through, we have suppressed our natural desires to express ourselves musically. Therefore, we have come to rely on people to write songs for us to help us with our feelings and emotions.
Songwriting is not difficult. It just takes great practice and perseverance. Even though one might seem to think that there are rules that have to be followed when writing a song, there are none. We are free to write whatever we’d like and how we’d like. They are an expression of us, the writers. It may seem daunting at first, but that is because we let our critical thinking interfere with our creative thinking. If we begin to inhibit our critical thinking, our ability to create great songs is possible.
We all at one time or another have sung something original in the shower. This happens because we are actually relaxed and thinking not with our critical side but our creative side. It is this portion of thinking that needs to be let loose more. The trick is to be able to catch those moments with paper and pen or with a recording device before we loose them. Whatever comes to mind needs to be caught in its rough stage without thinking.
From the various gatherings of ideas, full structures can be created that will become songs. Those thoughts whether lyrics or musical thoughts, will help create full fledged pieces. We just have to be there to acknowledge the creativeness that is part of our humanity.
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