How To Write A Blues Song - Write Melodies, Lyrics and Make Music!

How do you write a song?
Become a songwriter with our ‘How To Write A Blues Song Video’ where we share hints and tips that will help you write songs in many blues styles.
We look at how to write melodies, how to write lyrics along with hints and tips to further your creativity; like working from titles or learning the process by writing songs from a ‘brief’ as an exercise.
We then look at song arrangement for keeping a listeners interest before looking at how different keys, styles and feels can open doors to new and interesting ideas.
With examples and hints and tips you’ll get a range of ideas and styles to propel your creativity and finish songs that move people including great traditional music styles like; blues, delta blues, country blues, hill country blues, ragtime blues, piedmont blues, americanna, old time, jazz and swing music.
Perfect for fans and players of washboard music, resonator guitar music, hokum, blues and jazz.
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[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@philipclifford2314]

Studying theory. Homework is to write 12 bar blues chord progression and melody. This video is gold. Inspiring work! Thank you for your wisdom.

[@LoveMyHoodie]

Great stuff - thanks for sharing!!!! 😊

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Hope it helps!

[@MustafaBaabad]

Thank you very much!! If music were presented like this, then we would have much more quality musicians in our society. This is the type of music that should be educated in every "high school" all over the world to have less people get frustrated with their lifes. Thank you very much chief. Cheers from Indonesia.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

It’s a calling. If you like making songs you’ll figure out the steps!!

[@restlessascension3260]

Very insightful rhank you very much for taking the time to provide these tools

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Hope it opens a few doors!

[@Jim_West]

improved my writing skills massively in 45 minutes. legend! If you guys ever come to Australia ill be in the front row

[@TheWashboardResonators]

One day we hope!!

[@Jim_West]

@TheWashboardResonators the scene on the east coast is thriving post covid... so many good players

[@AngelA-xc7ne]

Thank you sooo much! Blues Power!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks!! 🎯

[@jodenecompton2365]

10:10 a.m. you gave me incentive.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@TulsaMikeFloydd]

“Crippled Inside,” by John Lennon, “ Dead Flowers,” and far Away Eyes“ by the stoneS”

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@keithhicks1750]

Really enjoyed this. I think you deserve a coffee for that. Thanks martyn.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Ha! Just saw that. Many thanks Keith!! It’s a bloody long video. Was meant to be 20 mins and I was shocked when it edited down to double. Hope it helps many people!!

[@nicknack169]

Very cool. Some excellent tips

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Hopefully they open doors for you!

[@lulu-kz5gf]

I'm glad I found your channel, this was highly informative.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Good. Hope it opened a few doors. Thanks! 🎯

[@Blue_3rd]

A very enjoyable video. It´s true that so many song lines seem to do the rounds (eg: my baby is six feet tall, she sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall). Your presentation style is really easy to watch. Cheers!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks! The floating verses are such an important part of the tradition. Being aware of them is important. Choosing to use them or not is one line in the sand any blues writer can stand either side of. Personally I find writing lines that sound a bit like floating lines is a good place to be. Centres the song in the olden days but retains freshness. 🎯

[@Blue_3rd]

@@TheWashboardResonators Indeed! I love the line ´the sun´s gonna shine on my back door someday´, it´s so sad but hopeful. I´d like to work it into a song like Keb Mo and Taj Mahal do sometimes :)

[@aidanfeldman9739]

A gift. Thank you!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks!!

[@ralphciardella9705]

You and Jack make great vids. Very informative and educational.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Glad you think so! Many thanks!!

[@theresewalters1696]

Thank you for your work.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks!

[@andyhowe1302]

I like this thanks 😊

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Hope it helps!

[@J.Dove3D]

Good stuff sir. Now you can show how you use your different National and flat top guitars to add "colour" to parts of songs, and compliment each other. Advice and etiquette for resonator/flat top acoustic jams. Really enjoying the downloads.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks for the kind words!! Advice and etiquette is easy. Been to loads of jams over the years and resonators are way too loud. You realise when someone else plays your resonator and you sit in front of it. However loud you want to be cut it down another 25% again and it’s probably right! When you need the power for a solo or when you’re leading a tune then gosh, it’s nice to have the power on tap.

[@gunnarmarks5754]

This video has been very helpful, thanks! Especially for learning to play guitar and sing at the same time, just having different stuff to say keeps it fresh

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Great. Hope it helps!

[@albertaadv6221]

Solid video as usual!

[@albertaadv6221]

Looking forward to the resonator intonation video

[@TheWashboardResonators]

It’s coming in the next few weeks!

[@merlin_hydes]

great thanks so much

[@TheWashboardResonators]

A pleasure.

[@Emphatiemesig]

wow im impressed by you I could listen to your tips and wisdoms for hours Took some notes and gonna start!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Get writing!! So much creativity to be had within the blues form.

[@abates226]

Good stuff!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks!

[@felixlindeman2296]

Could you pls make a video in depth about blues picking patterns??? Love ur vids btw

[@TheWashboardResonators]

The latest two are about this!

[@KBRblues]

Polish sausage... with grinded like button corpse on it ;)

[@TheWashboardResonators]

That’s nice. 🤮

[@toequantumspace]

I just found you! I looked for you because I just made my first blues (in g minor) and it lacks a melodic line.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Hopefully this video opens ideas with the first simple steps. 🎯

[@michaelgaurnier3108]

We need more 20s and 30s music and we need more education on blues form. Thank you! Are there other lyrical forms other than aaba for blues?

[@TheWashboardResonators]

There are loads of forms but as an introduction it’s good to share the main one. 8 bar blues forms with changing verses but a refrain on the last line are good. Pistol Slapper by Blind Boy Fuller being particularly good!

[@anneletfourie1491]

And Dont worry. I will do it free of charge

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@rocketgalaxy2535]

I specifically had scrumptious crunchy cheesy cheese puffs and a creamy slowly counter-cooked chocolate icecream for dinner, Thanks for asking.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Nice and healthy! 😵‍💫

[@tylerjones934]

The washboardresoators can you use a glass slide or metal pipe. Or bone or ceramic slides

[@tylerjones934]

Or a pocket knife slide

[@TheWashboardResonators]

All work. All have different sounds. Most people try all of them and choose their favourite after experimenting. Personally we’re fans of the heavy lead crystal glass ones.

[@shkibby1]

I get you said "I wish to be up high" but I choose to hear "I wish to be a pie"

[@TheWashboardResonators]

It’s a much better line!

[@anneletfourie1491]

(Forgive me, if it apleases you, but I am still figuring out what chords I am gonna use. This lyric is to borrow from. Please don't take steal it)

[@allstringron]

For dinner, I had pizza. Hope that helps some. :)

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Me too! Excellent!! 🎯

[@thomas_dries]

Fantastic video! I am just now learning how to sing while playing guitar. (And I'm still learning guitar 😅) Anyways, I don't read music or know music theory but I do write song lyrics. I'm having trouble coming up with guitar rhythms for the songs I've already written. It seems like the only way I'm able to play guitar and sing is to play a rhythm on my guitar and then make lyrics from them, not play the songs I've already written... 😔 Do I need to learn music theory to understand how to make guitar rythems that match the rythem of my lyrics?

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks for the kind words! To get the independence of both things it helps to be very confident with both. You need to have the parts deep down in your muscle memory. I’d learn guitar parts for a few classic songs. Say; Sweet Home Chicago, Boom Boom Boom and any Mississippi John Hurt tune. Between them you’ll gain mastery over the rhythmical playing. I would separately learn the melodies correctly too. Then put them together. You can also play the guitar parts and just sing the chord note over before adding the melody when comfortable. This will teach the independence so that writing songs comes easy. 🎯

[@thomas_dries]

@@TheWashboardResonators Thank you so much for the really informative response man! I am going to do a exactly as you said and learn those songs as well and some other old blues songs with rhythm and once I get the guitar rhythms down I'll try again. Again, thank you!

[@anneletfourie1491]

Here let me help you: Chords: I took a fright train from here to New Orleans. Chords: I thought I'd see my babe there. Chords: But now, I know somethings in life just ain't fare! Chords: 'Cause I'm still sittin' here down in New Orleans - I'm so far from home!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Very nice. We won’t steal them. 🎯