Comments on: SONGWRITING: 6 Tips for Guitar Songwriting

By: jon wil

jon wil — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 05:22:09 +0000

Well presented; thank you for posting.

By: mark sherwood

mark sherwood — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 04:41:42 +0000

Explained very well! Thank You for the insight of it all!

By: ImGonnaGoTakeANap

ImGonnaGoTakeANap — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 04:04:40 +0000

Really helpful lessons. Thankyou.

By: surfdigby

surfdigby — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 03:26:41 +0000

The problem is instinct takes over. Al these scales and patterns we've learned to mechanically do without thinking become obstructive, so you need to "break your programming", so to speak.
John Lennon started writing on the piano because he found himself continually going back to the same instinctive concepts when trying to compose on the guitar.
Joe Satriani advocates sticking to just one string, so that it's just notes going up or down, and there's no reliance on box shapes or positions.

By: surfdigby

surfdigby — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 03:05:00 +0000

One of my favourite songs has a guitar intro that I originally wrote for horns, and the guitar solo is pretty much the bass guitar part from a different part of the song. The different way of phrasing these parts makes them stand out from my usual directionless, pentatonic noodlings.
Try some exotic scales or synthetic modes, so that your fingers aren't going where instinct takes them. Likewise, using an open tuning will make your brain have to work in a different way than usual.

By: badpinkrecords .

badpinkrecords . — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 02:14:34 +0000

Thanx for pointing out what I've been doing right in songwriting as well as things I need to work on. I finally realized that when I use those phrasing devices in riffs, solos and lead lines, they jump out and make an otherwise mediocre line boogie.

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