Your audience wants to be taken for a journey and not a wild goose chase. As my friend Tim Johnson used to say, “It’s easier to get to where you are going, if you know your destination.” Having your title as your destination allows you to write TO it instead of wondering around in search of a direction.
The chorus is the most important part of a modern song in almost any genre.Ī big reason for choosing your title first is that it gives you a direction to write towards. Since that is going to be my title, I know that is going to be the big idea in my chorus. Now, let’s say I decide to write the title “Never Again”.
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The Next Step In How To Write A Song Is Choosing Your Title It’s always best to choose the best one from a group of titles than the first one that comes to mind. This will help make your song believable and have a greater chance of emotionally impacting your listeners. You might come up with titles like: I always suggest that you focus on coming up with titles that are real rather than clever. Let’s pretend you chose heartbreak as the topic. After you find your topic, brainstorm interesting song titles that would creatively express the feeling you are after. This always leads to interesting or heartfelt titles. Finding a topic that is interesting to you and that makes you feel something is always going to fuel your creative juices more than a topic that is purely fiction or non-relatable to you. If you have recently had your heartbroken, that might be a good emotion to dig into first. In my SongTown workshops, we do an exercise where I ask everyone to write down 3 things they would like to say to someone. For Your First Song, I recommend starting with a topic you are passionate about or that makes you feel something.įor instance, if you are newly in love, you are in a great place to write a love song.