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Fascinating Wiki article. ☺️ Thank you for sharing. This is why I got those "little fat" notebooks. Never know when inspiration will strike, whether that's a full song, lyric snippets, song titles, "blueprinting", etc.
I plan to see my local singer-songwriter friends John Plankenhorn and Carole Ferrara perform live tomorrow by the way. I may "pick their brains" afterwards or email Carole afterwards to see if she has any songwriting advice.
If so, I'll share it here.
So today's helping of songwriting advice - things to avoid when songwriting/dealing with the songwriting world. Not technical stuff but more like super helpful advice when writing songs and dealing with others.
If you can read my sloppy handwriting, you got this!
Songtown really is a treasure trove. Fun fact: Clay Mills was a student of Sheila Davis . I think even one of his lyrics is used as an example in one of her books
That's pretty f--king cool! I may get the three books they penned together sometime next month (as I've already enough books to last me a long while at this time). Meanwhile mate, thanks to Youtube's algorithm I discovered a new-to-me channel called Music By Mattie, and the first video, while 15 minutes in length, was a treasure trove of basic-but-important information! Check these notes out!
All marked down in what is becoming my "sacred songwriting notebook". 😂 I call it that since I'm gathering a lot of info into this one book that's most helpful for me, and hopefully is helpful for you lot as well.
I'm still looking forward to our collaboration someday @Butterfrog
Looks like a guide how to NOT write a Taylor Swift song. 😆
😂🤣🤣 That is the funniest shit I've heard all day. Facts are, Taylor Swift must be doing something right to appeal to so many folks out there (whether it's relatable songs or ritualistic sacrificing of animals 🤣 ). And hell, even I enjoy some of her songs unironically (with "Blank Space" being my favorite). I'm not a fan of her more recent work, but I do enjoy her new song "I Knew It, I Knew You"...
However, as far as my own songwriting is concerned, I'm far more inspired by the 60s and 70s (and even some 80s) eras of songwriting (with the exception of HipHop, where I'm inspired by many MCs from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s). From Bob Dylan, to Roger Waters, to Glenn Frey, to Jim Croce, to the Beatles (which includes John Lennon mind you, and even John Lennon's solo work is phenomenal), to f--king Jim Peterik, to Brian Wilson, to Dolly Parton, to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, to Diane Warren, to Prince, to 2Pac, to Dre, to Eminem...and as I think I said above, I could spend all day listing out every last one of my songwriting inspirations.
A lot of these inspirations were "before my time" as it were. Yes, I'm in my early 40s, an "elder millennial" as it were, but I grew up with a lot of my parents' music. You ever listen to the original pressing of "Dark Side of the Moon"? My dad had that on "vinyl" (what the kids these days call "a record"). My parents were great music connoisseurs.
Anyways, getting back to Taylor Swift and the "7 Sins" list. Sometimes, songwriting "rules" are meant to be broken, and break them she did, and she makes it sound good. In my opinion, she's one of the top modern songwriters out there. A lot of what I write down in my "sacred songwriting journal" and share here are more like guidelines than hard-and-fast rules.
Honestly, one book a year is more the rate you want to go at with this stuff.
There are 4 aspects to mastering any skill:
Input
Analysis
Output
Fluency
If you get too many books, you're doing too much input and not enough of the other stages. One a year, max, would be the right speed! Most of the work should be done writing and analyzing.
Taylorswift is isn’t just a songwriter. She is a singer-songwriter wich gives her greater liberties. She doesn’t have to tailor (pun intended) every part of her song to get picked up by a publisher or recording artist. She can decide to break a rule because she is defining her own brand. That gives her a lot of creative freedom to experiment with things. Besides that her output is insane wich gives her more chances at hits or at least consistently good, listenable songs.
Looking forward to it too buddy
Good points made.
Right now, I'm in "absorption" mode, but will soon try out the various exercises and such. 
This is so true to be honest.
From this morning's SongTown video I watched...
Very good insights as to the songwriting pitfalls to avoid.
I think this one was mentioned but there are so many sites called “how to write song/s.” This one was very useful to me when starting out. Keppie Coutts and Ben Romalis:
https://youtube.com/@htws?si=8zjgeOKqbZnL6X6b