[musictlk] Songwriting tips!

[Joshua Lester]

Hi All!
Lately, I've been listening to some songs that have been written by a particular songwriter on here, and I'm not impressed with the vocals, or the lyrical content!
The lyrical content is vitally important, because your songs have got to grab your listeners!
The melodic structure is also important.
If something's too simple, and it's one line sung over and over again, and the voice isn't good, the listener's going to listen to something else!
Your lyrics must rhyme, and flow with the melody!
You shouldn't start a song in one key, and go up to a totally unrelated key!
For instance, on "Country ain't Country Like it once was," it started in D, and then moved up to G for the chorus, for no earthly rhyme or reason!
Stay in one key!
If you start in D, and you want to go up, move it up a half step, to D Sharp!
It's also supposed to have a flow, like if I sang "It is Well, with my Soul in D, and I move up to D Sharp!
I'd sing the following notes, in the middle of the last verse.
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll," would be A D C Sharp B B C Sharp D E, and then I'd go up, by rolling that E, down to a D Sharp for a 16th note, up to F, and then hit that B Flat, like Poverati, and sing that note twice, and go into singing that song in D Sharp!
That's how to propperly go up!
If we were doing a skype call now, I'd probably lower it a key in giving my example, since today's not a good day for me vocally, but you get the point!
I hope this helps!
BTW, don't rhyme "Do," with "Do," like Alan Jackson does!
Blessings, Joshua