Become a Songwriter

Are you an aspiring songwriter? Do you always believe that making it in the music industry is your destiny but don’t know where to start? Do you always have that dream of composing your own hit music?

I have had some friends tell me that they think composing music is easy, and that anyone with a pen can do it. Yeah right. Anyone can do it, but only a select few can REALLY do it. Composing a song is much like being an author. We all have the tools to write (everyone I guess has a brain!), but that does not necessarily make us a NY Times best-selling author.  It is often quite frustrating to know that some people, including professional composers, can compose a hit song in a breeze. Equally frustrating is finding yourself always searching for ideas, you can write lyrics but without music or music without lyrics, or writing one bad song after another. Such frustating experiences have led many to believe that they are incapable of writing a hit song, thus abandoning such pursuits.

This songwriting guide from Stuart Sinclair called Superior Writing will try to dispel that belief. Stuart Sinclair believes that while it is true that some people are gifted with better natural talent than others,  that talent can only get you so far. He added that you can maximize the chances of your sucess by mastering a number of key songwriting skills included in the guide itself.

Many people will argue that there is no such thing a one stop shop or guide when it comes to harnessing your creative juices in songwriting. In fact, you might say that you can just practically sit down with no structure or discipline and still write songs. Sure you can do that but experience would tell that allowing such attitude will just give you nothing but gibberish music. It is still music but gibberish nonetheless. What good songwriters need is discipline and structure. Songwriting is a harmony of orderliness, preparation, skill, and knowledge.

Superior Writing teaches you all of that as well as the art of songwriting. The book caters to all levels of experience. However, as with all other methods, the book is not aiming to teach everything there is to know about composing because that would be humanly impossible. A good deal of what makes somebody click in the music business is experience. In music and in life, all new things takes a lot of practice. You won’t really get the hang of it and understand it until you go out and do it yourself.

Enough of the talking, let the good times roll.

Visit the Superior Songwriting homepage here!

Always remember . . . Nothing works until you follow it up with ACTION.

Enjoy & Prosper!