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songwriting tips for lyrics and making beats on time crunch

Songwriting Tips for Lyrics and Making Beats on a Time Crunch

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” (Mary Shelley)

When inspiration comes at you, it strikes with words, melodies, & music that can often seem overwhelming. It can be such an information overload that if sidetracked for one slight moment, all creative ideas could be lost. The most important thing to know in times of inspiration is acknowledging the desired end result.

Here are 3 Songwriting Tips for Lyrics and Making Beats on a Time Crunch:

1) Capture your Lyrics and Theme: Lyrics are Simple. Keep the words flowing on paper, keep them coming until there is nothing left. ‘Afterwards’, figure the theme and song title, then edit, and arrange lyrics.

2) Choose your Song Melodies: Melodies can be a bit trickier.Some melodies can sound great but when adding the words, they get hard to understand or too complex to be enjoyed by your fanbase. The best thing is to get a small recorder to record those great melodies that come randomly. Then, when new lyrics are finished, go through the melodies and see which one blends with the lyrics. This process can transform average melodies to solid hooks. If you need to come up with melodies on the spot, just get on the mic, adlib and record until you find the melody that fits your lyrics.

3) Making Beats for your Songs: Music can be the most challenging because it can be hard to discern when a song is completely ‘finished’. The most important thing is to know your style of music and fanbase. Are you writing songs for yourself, the underground, for a particular style or for the radio? After determining your audience, the last factor is can you listen to the entire song and not hear ‘a thing’ wrong with it? Can you live with the instrument performance or can you ‘really’ do it better? Now this method is assuming that your ears have been technically trained to hear too much compression, eq, an unbalanced mix, etc. If you’re unsure, get a second opinion from someone you know in the industry or who has great sounding productions. Ask them to shoot straight and be honest with you. Once you can listen to a song from front to back without something ‘bothering you’ creatively and technically, it is a sure sign that your song is as complete as you can get it. From there, the ultimate test is to make sure you and your fan base are happy with your creativity.

These 3 Songwriting Tips can help bring clarity to those emotional explosions of inspiration, prevent loss of focus, and can help you write more songs in less time…

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Investing in your Music Business Management

Investing in your Music Business Management

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will neither have good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither it’s pipes nor it’s theories will hold water” -John Gardiner

Let’s face it… it’s not the 90’s for the music business… For that matter, it’s not any of the previous decades in the music industry.. This is the most exciting time in the music industry… Why?

Your Music Business is all about you. However, that is the good news and the bad news..

Yes, the good news is that anyone writing music has access to distribution that will reach the entire world through iTunes, Napster, BeatPort and many other forms of digital distribution outlets.

The bad news is that no one is going to create the system and give you the talents and direction of how to do this according to your goals and what you personally want to do in the music business. The days of finding a manager, agent, label or company to invest in you are over…. that is, if you have not invested in yourself. What does that look like? Either you have the money to pay people to do it for you, you do it on your own, or you keep creating music as a hobby and never reach it as a lucrative music business. Keep in mind in today’s music business, lucrative starts as part-time and makes its way to full time.

Most artists who are creating music as a hobby for 5-10 years never visualize the process through. Where do you want to end up? “I want to be the best music producer in the world, I want to run a record label, I want to make beats for major labels”. I hear this all the time and try to help people really ‘see’ what that looks like.

Now that you have the end in mind, you must back track to where you are now with your current budget, resources and connections. How do you make it work? If you cannot see it then your end goal is a fantasy. There must be a realistic route to your goal. If there isn’t one, you must keep going back to the drawing board until it all matches up.

Investing in your own music business management is humbling, you have to prioritize, cut out unneeded people and tasks that distract you from your ultimate goals. Let’s face it, it’s hard to put all these things aside and go for your dreams. You’ll start to find that there really are a lot of Posers in the Music Industry once you knuckle down and get to work. People will shrug you off – ‘man you’re too serious, why don’t you loosen up?, why you changing all the time – let’s just go have some fun’.

Personally investing in your music business is challenging at first but once you dig in, start connecting the dots of how to get from point A to point B, you’ll soon find out that its much easier than you thought… AND you’ll find you are talented in more than musical gifts but also staying focused and getting things done.

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3 ways worry dry up creativity

3 Ways to keep Worry from Drying up your Music Creativity

If you are worried about anything while making beats or recording music, it is possible you may suffer from writer’s block or a lack of music creativity. Truth be told there is no such thing as writer’s block but that is entirely different article… Worrying however, contributes to any form of writers block.

Worrying consists of any negative thoughts that project into your future about you and your music. These thoughts literally can eat away at you ‘behind the scenes’ while you’re working on music, writing lyrics and finishing your music.

Here are some facts about Worry while creating music:

  • Worry keeps you from doing what can be done to change your circumstances.
  • Worry will never change the outcome and allows your fears to come to pass.
  • What you focus on expands and what expands grows and flourishes.
  • Is your worry about ‘making it’ or ‘do i have what it takes’ driving you?
  • Or is how much you love making beats and song writing what drives you?

Only your music creativity will keep your fears and worries from happening.

You are ultimately going to end up where you are constantly thinking.
Either worry or creativity can exist. Either fear or hope can exist.
Both cannot exist in the same place. Which ones do you find yourself focusing on?

Here are 3 ways to Keep Worry from Drying up your Music Creativity:
1) Think about what you’re thinking about while making music: You can sense when worry starts rearing its ugly head, it starts with a knot in the stomach, discouragement about what you’re creating, then it can grow into talking you out of creating music, it will say things like: ‘you can’t make beats, you’re not talented, or today is not a good day for making music for you’.

2) Make a worry or fear list: write down every single thing that is stopping you from daily going for your dreams. Next to each item, write down – is this something out of your hands or can you do something about this? Keep this list near by when you are making beats and tapping into your music creativity.

3) Move into a state of action: Take action and change what you can change. Stop focusing on the things you can’t do anything about.

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how to get listen to beats

How do I get people to Listen to my Beats?

One of the top questions I get from producers and artists who I meet through GotchaNoddin.com is: How do I get people to listen to my beats?
Here are 4 things you can do to get people to listen to your beats and get your music in the right hands.

1) Music Creativity: For simplicity I will sum up 3 ways you can gear your music towards.
A. You can copy the mainstream and mimic the styles, lyrics and sounds.
B. Be so completely creative that no one can ‘understand’ what you are creating.
C. Find your personal balance of what you love hearing and blend it with your own style

How do you do this? Study your favorites. Don’t copy, mix and match, switch it up. Today’s reality is that SOMEONE has inspired you and chances are you’re going to sound like someone who came before you. It will more than likely be who you listen to a lot. I don’t care what anyone says, they are not looking for the next ‘so and so who in #1 on the charts’. You will come and go and be the next one hit wonder. If you plan on doing music for awhile, find your style and stick with it. The majority of professional artists who have been around through the years have found their style, created a ‘brand’ and kept doing what they love for 10-20 years. This is also something worth studying.

2) Excellent Sound Quality: There is no such thing as a demo. Technology these days is amazing. There is absolutely no reason why your music should sound amateur. When someone listens to your music and it is not excellent quality they are going to think you are whack promoting your material as completed when it is still a demo.

3) Study your Music Industry: If you are in Hip Hop, Reggaeton, RnB, Dance or Rock music you have an entirely different music industry. There are different networking events to attend, different people to meet and different ways you can personally figure out how to get your music in the right hands. Make absolutely sure that you are making music that is in a style or that is so weird and uniquely amazing that it doesn’t need one. All it takes is for one person to really ‘get you’ and spread the word.

4) Great Artwork: Let’s put it this way, if your artwork and photos are whack, your music is whack. It is better to have no artwork than something that looks like you’ve been lost in time travel for 20 years. On the other end of the spectrum, invest in yourself! You ‘can’ just write on your CD but wouldn’t you rather represent the music you have worked so hard to create professionally?

From my experience and listening to MANY demos, I have found by good planning and really ‘thinking’ about your music packaging and promotion, you will have a better chance of getting people to listen to your beats. Not only that, you’ll get your music into the right hands.

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