[musictlk] Songwriting tips!

[Timothy Clark Music]

josh, i appriciate your tips but honestly, i think this is stuff you should have wrote to me privately. 
 just saying. thanks anyhow.
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On Jul 5, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Joshua Lester wrote:

> 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
> 
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