You Don’t Know How Write To A Song … You’re Not A Musician!

This is something I briefly touched on in a previous newsletter – …over and over I get asked “will I write better songs if I’m a musician”?

What’s the answer?

Yes AND no.

Confused?

Let me explain. For the sake of simplicity, here I’ll talk about the ‘music’ aspect of songwriting.

First up, I’ll tell you that I’m a musician, songwriter and a vocal coach. And I have worked with both songwriters who play instruments and songwriters who don’t. Which group are a better bunch to work with?

It goes like this. Those who play an instrument (to a certain degree) are more prone to understand timing, tempo and perhaps some syncopation. Sometimes, musicians will 메이저사이트 also understand the creation of melody a little more than non-musicians. They’ll understand the structure of harmony and some music theory that goes along with it.

Because of the various ‘pieces’ or ‘songs’ they have played with their instruments, these musical and rhythmic elements are more or less...