SONGWRITING: 6 Tips for Guitar Songwriting

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This Is what I love. You just pick up the guitar and go straight to work at schooling us. Thank you.

[@surfdigby]

One of my favourite songs has a guitar intro that I originally wrote for horns, and the guitar solo is pretty much the bass guitar part from a different part of the song. The different way of phrasing these parts makes them stand out from my usual directionless, pentatonic noodlings. Try some exotic scales or synthetic modes, so that your fingers aren't going where instinct takes them. Likewise, using an open tuning will make your brain have to work in a different way than usual.

[@badpinkrecords]

Thanx for pointing out what I've been doing right in songwriting as well as things I need to work on. I finally realized that when I use those phrasing devices in riffs, solos and lead lines, they jump out and make an otherwise mediocre line boogie.

[@davydavi]

Jayson, all music uses these rhythms, whether sped up or slowed down, so yes you can. With metalcore, 16ths.

[@surfdigby]

The problem is instinct takes over. Al these scales and patterns we've learned to mechanically do without thinking become obstructive, so you need to "break your programming", so to speak. John Lennon started writing on the piano because he found himself continually going back to the same instinctive concepts when trying to compose on the guitar. Joe Satriani advocates sticking to just one string, so that it's just notes going up or down, and there's no reliance on box shapes or positions.

[@yodpod]

Explained very well! Thank You for the insight of it all!

[@viper9t5]

Could you do any thing....similar to this for metal core music

[@jonwill]

Well presented; thank you for posting.

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[@ΔημοςΓουολ]

men you roock!!!you really are a very good teacher!!

[@PatrickMWilkins]

Very cool!

[@haribaldo]

AWESOME!

[@ΔημοςΓουολ]

andrew youre awesome!!!!

[@peterwood-jenkins3634]

This is undoubtedly a good method of creating melodies , but lets remember how a phrase sounds okay on a guitar , is different when you are writing for the voice I would say more emphasis on Chords and Rhythm , as those two items also I find your voice very boring, Many great songs start off with just two notes followed by a longer phrase , another thing you dont mention is start off point in a phrase repetition contrast ; these are the things that will make a song great