How To Write A Song – For Songwriters & Producers

Being a songwriter can be a challenge especially if all you know is what you hear on the radio.

It’s not just about writing a song but it’s about writing a song that is radio friendly and radio ready.

Songwriting is one of those things that seem easier than singing, but it’s actually more of a challenge. It’s not something where you open your mouth and you’re 99% guaranteed to hit a certain note, so long as you try. Songwriting is a craft that is best left up to individuals who are wordsmiths and have a keen sense of arranging their ideas/viewpoints/feelings into words in ways that most of us would never imagine.

By the way, I’m only dealing with songwriters who plan on publishing their music for a commercial recording, even if it is indie and only sells 10,000 copies – that’s still a commercial CD.

Fact:

For the year of 2007 – the mechanical royalty rate is 9.1cents per CD sold. If you happen to write a song exclusively on a project that sells 10,000 copies then you can expect to get a check for $910 bucks. Not bad for a day, or week of hard work?

Problem is…if you’re just starting out, you are probably not going to find many $910 opportunities because, obviously, there are other people who want that $910 and want songwriting credit. So somewhere you have to find out how to write a good song and not just good…but extremely good and competitive. One more thing… it needs to sound like “what’s hot”, but it still has to be unique. That’s the part that can drive you insane—seriously.

The easy part about writing songs, and writing music – is that hopefully it’s something you love…and if you work hard enough, you can always come up with something new. It isn’t always easy – but you can do it, you do it all the time, especially when you aren’t “pressured” to do it. There are some writers who make many thousands of dollars to write songs under contract and there are others who make many thousands of dollars because they love to do it and they happen to be popular amongst the powers that be. What matters today is that you are able to draw the line between a song that would qualify for a competition and a song that’s something that you should probably keep to yourself.

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WARNING: That line is really thin and it gets blurry as you continue to develop your inner critic. Your inner critic will develop to the point where you know certain things just won’t fly. You know that singing in the key of A when your song is in the key of E major is probably not going to do you much good…unless you… really don’t plan on making that many CD sales. For the rest of us (myself included) writing songs for commercial releases is about being current, being relevant, being witty, and implementing the trends.

Below you’ll find a plan that outlines what major producers/songwriters go through to put together records for Major recording artists. This is the plan that is generally used by big record producers at major labels. I know because I’ve used it, I’ve experienced projects that used plans like this, and this workflow is generally how it works…even when it comes to the way executives pick an album. They start by trying to figure out what song worked, then they basically want some sort of “unique” clone of it. Go figure!

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