Episode 17: Songwriting the Nashville Way | Industry InSite | CMA

[@RawUndergroundMusic]

if you wanna sing songs about the rural country life, you gotta live in the big city of Nashville.

[@bradfordcparker]

My father Forrest Parker is a world renowned steel guitar player, he’s played with all the greats! He says to write 100 songs then, and only then will you be ready to write ONE!! I’ve been fortunate to have the gift of putting lyrics to paper and putting a melody behind it! Always keep learning, growing and critiquing yourself

[@acharich]

💥🙏🏾💥

[@LUCKYB.]

MR PARKER WAS VERY GOOD WITH THE STEEL ..

[@markwatkins1159]

I.will.inherit.the.former.home.of.may.axton.she.premoted.elvis.with.heart.break.hotel.they.would.go.out.in.the.garage.work.on.their.music.some.say.heart.break.hotel.was.written.thair.some.say.no.it.was.fl.i.have.no.publisher.or.anything.at.the.time.or.any.thing.else.something.big.going.down.with.my.writing.hank.jr.was.here.not.so.long.ago.this.event.effected.both.of.our.lives.i.struggled.hard.to.get.the.so ng.out.of.that.event.i.made.it.april.2019.i.need.a.pubisher..watch.for.my.comments.thairs.much.more.good.luck.to.all.songwriters.mark.watkins.broken.bow.ok.5.9.2019

[@bjarnyg]

@@markwatkins1159 you're. over. using. the. punctuation. mark. i. don't. get. the. point.

[@aiden_macleod]

@@bjarnyg AT LEAST HE DIDN'T USE ALL CAPS WHEN HE WROTE HIS COMMENT. THAT WOULD BE REALLY ANNOYING. S0m3t1m35 p30pl3 us3 numb3r5 1n5t34d 0f u51ng v0w3l5 wh1ch 15 3v3n w0r53 th4n u51ng 4ll c4p5, wh1ch 15 3v3n m0r3 4nn0ying.

[@RickyConnelley]

What a great video. I just played my first show “in the round” at Douglas corner cafe’.. idk what I’d do without songwriting and performing on stage!

[@stranger7138]

I thought CMA meant Country My Ass. You learn something new every day.

[@Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782]

Hahaha! I remember Country songs that were great back in the 90s and back. I have a little trouble with the new country of today.

[@RES81]

This Video is 10 years old ... Things have changed a lot in 10 years ... a lot of it doesn't work this way anymore.

[@chicagobob]

How does it work now?

[@RES81]

@@chicagobob Today, writing sessions can amass four or five writers including a producer or “track guy” who often sits in the room and helps build the song from start to finish and most of the time this is all strategically put together by recording label execs that gives them a blueprint of what kind of song that they want. By the time the songwriters leave they have a professional sounding demo. While today’s efficiency saves record labels and artists money, it has made the job of a session musician more difficult to find. Before Songwriters wrote songws went to a studio and got a demo worked up and had a publisher pitch them to artists, not anymore tho ... the Labels are orchestrating and controlling everything.

[@chicagobob]

@@RES81 thank you. So how does an independent songrwriter of lyrics or music crack into the business these days?

[@RES81]

@@chicagobob Like I said everything is pretty much done in house now and the Nashville labels pretty much only hire young writers with influences in Pop,R&B and Hip Hop, if you fit that description then you could move to Nashville and hook up with other young writers and eventually get a job with a label as a round table writer .... if you want to learn more about writing and being in an online song writing community then check out SongTown by two very successful writers, Marty Dodson and Clay Mills, they work with many artist and songwriters and have them on Songtown to help mentor and give tips on pitching songs ... I highly recommend it! ... but there are many other ways to get songs out there but I'm not familiar with them, but you have to avoid the sharks that'll fill you with bull to get your money,

[@cjhughes]

@@RES81 So demo recording with session players is dead now?

[@chrisrose5740]

Love it !!!

[@sidewaysrain7609]

A great song and a pop country hit are usually, if not always two completely different animals.

[@erickandrade1921]

Yes true. One of them tqlks about beer,trucks, and girls and the other one is actually a good song

[@theguitarjohnshow]

Actually a job is the best place to start gotta make money and not freeze on the streets too I'm a struggling singer songwriter and Musician so Everything on God's Time

[@MsSandraCGL]

Oh we need to be in Nashville?😂😂😂😂😂

[@shanegregg1057]

Correction:,you won’t make it as a Trashville country writer if you don’t live in Nashville. Plenty of Alt country songwriters are from all over the US that have made a name for themselves outside of Nashville. Good ones.... not just what you hear on mainstream radio

[@aiden_macleod]

Alt Country? You mean like Trap and Pop Country? Abominations, both of them.

[@davidcook2513]

I'm glad Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Buck Owens, etc didn't watch this KZbin video and think that they HAD to do it Nashville's way.

[@NoCoverCharge]

@@aiden_macleod no thats not what alt country is... more like reddirt country...alt country is about a billion times better then the Nashville garbage of today

[@shawnn5213]

I am glad that you stated a fact

[@torinancemusic]

12 years ago…now in the age of TikTok I’m thinking ya don’t need to live in Nash?

[@bjmccoy5060]

I got songs I've wrote that I wanna do somthing with.

[@oskarlinderoth]

Let's pat each other's backs some more...

[@conradmeyer4565]

Hi i dont write a bad song i dont play live so mabe u might tell me how to give my songs for listerning to anyone

[@richardbrucemusic]

Drooble radio

[@driofernands]

hi guys, let me know what do u think about my songs. please help me to improve. thanks

[@HeWhoFlewFromInwood]

Home sounds great, put out some more stuff

[@markwatkins1159]

.would.like.to.corrispond.with.writters.publishers.its.a.honor.to.inherit.the.home.of.may.axton.i.can.see.may.and.elvis.thair.working.on.their.music.a.lot.of.insperation.for.me.and.my.writing.thair.some.say.heart.break.hotel.was.writtten.thair.some.say.no.?.garth.brooks.reba.you.put.your.foot.on.a.song.about.lane.frost.you.missed.it.i.put.it.on.papper.im.sure.some.one.will.pick.it.up.in.the.future.lane.was.from.here.his.mother.speaks.at.events.here.elsie.frost.a.much.loved.women.by.all.mark.watkins.broken.bow.ok.5.10.2019

[@morgansmith3650]

Easy for successful songwriters to tell you how to do it. Example: man/woman with a family of 6. Advise... start having sex. But the success and character of that family now depends on how they are raised. Bad analogy? hit me....

[@chadflores4060]

Heres the secret: play G, D, E, C semi fast. BOOM hit uptempo song. Then play G,D,E,C semi slow. BOOM hit slow song. Then play G,D,E,C mid tempo...maybe add a capo...BOOM hit mid tempo song. You can figure out the rest.

[@dannypeardon9645]

Father had several songs stolen in late 70s Willie and Waylon change a couple of words and it's there song. Don't trust none of em. Greedy bastard's.

[@JS-rp7qb]

Danny Peardon sure he did. Sure.

[@pigginainteasy324]

Dude I pitch songs all the time. Never hear anything back. But you know who listens to all these songs... The hired songwriters at the pub companies. I have heard word for word lines I have written and melodies, chord progressions, you name it. I'm just giving them my ideas for free

[@edwidgewhatsosons1727]

Do you copyright them? Have a publisher?

[@LUCKYB.]

MIKE SHIPLEY FROM DIXON TN . LOST MANY SONGS .. TO TOP SINGERS .TAKE A SONG CHANGE THIS OR THAT AND MARK IT COWRITER OR JUST STEEL IT .. AND YOU END UP WITH CRAP .

[@mdew24]

Just write about drinking beer chasing women/men and getting dumped and you will have a hit. At least for a country song. I did mention beer right? And trucks.

[@yourturn777]

Forgot GUNS

[@musingsofrock]

I don't get it. I thought you moved to Nashville to become a singer or an artist not a songwriter. So if you are just a singer looking to make it, Nashville is not the place because it is just about songwriting?

[@NoCoverCharge]

If modern day country radio is the nashville way..count me out.. it sucks

[@randynyberg3536]

I was stuck on a dirt road in a Chevy yruck a girl came to me and said im a country music song riter if i needed help. Why is there young girls writing songs she does not rite her songs they wrote them and its caught up to her

[@LUCKYB.]

You mean the Nashville Mafia right? LOL Yeah going to writers night and get your shit stolen.

[@aiden_macleod]

Ever hear of a thing called Copyrights? Protect yourself and don't be stupid about it and you'll be fine.