Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘song titles’

Rewriting Song Titles For Practice And Inspiration

Here’s an exercise I love to do when I need inspiration for song titles. If nothing’s coming naturally, this trick can really get the creative juices flowing. Even if I end up using nothing that I come up with, I find that within a day or two, one of my ideas will trigger something completely different, usable, and inspiring.

5 Sure Fire Ways To Kick-Start The Songwriting Habit

If you don’t already write songs regularly, then it’s safe to say that you don’t yet have a songwriting habit. Because if you did, you would feel compelled to write songs every day and perhaps all day long.

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 05-20-07

Topics covered: Advice to developing songwriters, the art and craft of songwriting, strategies for writing hooks and melodies, a 7-step process to writing hit songs, and much more.

Chorus Cheat Sheet - 7 Types Of Choruses And How To Write Them

Joining Samurai Songwriting has lots of perks. One of them is the Chorus Cheat Sheet. Inside this guide to writing great choruses, you’ll learn…

Why it’s called a “chorus” and what this means to you as a songwriter.
The seven basic chorus forms — with dozens of hit song examples to show you how it all works [...]

The Perfect Song Title - 5 Things To Remember

Place Your Song Title At Key Points In The Chorus
Your song title is more likely to be remembered if it is placed in the first or last line of the chorus.
Place Emphasis On Your Song Title In The Chorus
Support your song title by giving it a rhythm, melody, and harmony that sounds natural and intuitive. [...]

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 10-13-06

Topics covered: Hooks, song titles, song ideas, lyrical insights, melodic insights, hook placement, and much more…

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-03-06

Topics covered: Song titles, P.T. Barnum, hooks, headlines, direct response, songwriting, the internet…

What Was The Name Of That Song?

Musiclens lets you search for music using vague criteria like how loud it is or its tempo and mood. Pretty spiffy flash interface as well.
Musiclens is different from Song Tapper and maybe not as good for finding the title of a song. But it shines if you use it to discover new music. I especially [...]

Songwriting For Busy People

Mind Hacks posted how choice is demotivating when there are too many options.
“Offer students a choice of 6 essays, rather than 30 essays, for extra-credit and more will take up the opportunity if there is less choice of essay titles - and, what is more, they write better essays.”
And if you have 45 song ideas [...]

The Astonishing Hit-Making Magic of Song Titles

Why almost everyone is completely wrong about what makes a good song title… and why this is a tremendous advantage for anyone who knows the secrets.
Most people - and shamefully, most so-called experts in songwriting - wouldn’t know a good song title if it bit them on the ass. The fact is, there is more [...]