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in this short video i'm gonna teach you how to get past
writer's block and get good lyric ideas
coming up with good ideas for your songs now it may seem like
it's real easy
to get past that writer's block but it's not
so i'm a show you some ways to get past it
you can always fall to love and relationships
that's a theme that is never going to go out of style, but sometimes you want to
narrow it down a bit
and write a focused song
that's not about love or relationships. Sometime's you just want to
write something different
where do you get good song ideas from?
and how can you get past that writer's block?
So I am going to show you
ten different
exercises that you can use
to break out of that
slump or that writer's block
the first one is grab some magazines if you got magazines around the house if you go
to a bookstore you can look it all the magazines
you can go to magazines.com and look at magazines
you know magazines got great articles
they pay people a huge amount of money
to come up with different articles and headlines
so this is a great information for you this is a great way to come up with
song ideas
number two is yahoo and facebook
if you go to yahoo's home page
they have a wealth of
different stuff that you can get into
videos and articles and surveys and everything. facebook is a good one
because you're seeing other peoples personalities your seeing what
they're going through which is a good basis for writing a story and coming up
with a great song
number three is a dictionary
you can look in the dictionary and lookup words
and get ideas. If you rap
or if you sing and you want to make your song rhyme you can look in a
rhyming dictionary they have good input
to get your mind going
four is newspapers
the best newspaper
to get ideas from in my opinion
is the national enquirer you can see all types of drama and fall outs and gossip
everything is in that national inquirer
you can go to any
book stand or wal-mart to get
the national enquirer
and it has great content in it.
or your local newspaper. number five is pay attention to people. go to places
where they have a lot of people airports restaurants
and just kinda see how people socialize and interact with each other
think: what is it about this person? think: How do they live?
think: what kind of things are they going through?
and this will get your mind jogging and getting some good ideas to come in your mind
number six
is watch tv shows
i like to watch the morning shows like Judge Judy
or Maury Povich
those shows give you really good ideas. they show
the human psyche
and they show relationships and
it's just a great wealth of knowledge to make songs
seven is to change it up
if you write country songs try to write a rap song
use different song structures
write a poem just do something different and that will get to your mind go in in
in a different direction and that will
open your mind up two different new things and you can come up with great ideas
doing that
number eight is going to be
be inspired by other people songs
grab a song that you like somebody that you really
love to listen to and listen to their song and see if there's
a way that maybe you could put a spin on their story
or make it a better song just don't steal it, but just
try to see if you can make it something of yours
number nine is to write without thinking. just grab a piece of paper start writing
don't worry about what you're writing just start writing, this will go past your
conscious mind and go into your self- conscious mind and it will
not only get your mind going, but
you may come up with some great things
and number 10 is call your friends to get ideas this is a great way
go through your phone
talk to people see what kinda issues they're going through
catch up with people
and that sometimes can get your mind going into a great story
getting a great song
so those of the ten things that you can do to get past the writer's block
just keep in mind that
there's a world of
of stuff out there
all you have to do is keep your eyes open and then you'll be able to start
spotting stuff and
be able to make songs about them pretty easy
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