![]() To give you an example, The Bee Gees have an iconic modern copyright, “How Deep Is Your Love.” Calvin Harris also has had a massive hit with the same title! The simple fact here is you can’t copyright a song title. Little hint here - you can’t copyright a song title - so this writer would look at anything that sounded appealing or felt like a “weighty” title or concept, and then collect and document this song title in his “song prompt” collection…and save it for later. Or I might be just talking to someone and they might say something out of the blue that is just - such an honest truth, or a unique combination or a twist of a phrase - I’ll write that down too.Īnd - I know of at least one iconic songwriter who (pre internet) would go to the library, ask for 10 issues of Billboard, with a magazine from each year, say from 1967 - 1977, and then look at the song titles on the Hot 100. ![]() And no doubt this can also be an online folder or notebook of melody ideas, great chord progressions, etc that you may want to come back to review later.Įspecially when it comes to lyrics for instance, I might be in the shower and a song title or a concept pops into my head. Often this can be your own personal repository of song ideas, concepts, song titles, snippets, or ideas just captured in the moment over the last years of your songwriting.įor instance, even though I haven’t been that active in writing these days, I still have an online Google document called Song Titles / Concepts that I continually add ideas. And quick note - make sure you read all the way to the end, where I’ll give you 10 Ideas for top songwriting prompts! Write A Songįor myself, and a lot of the songwriters I work with, I always encourage the idea of song prompts. Or maybe you’re just looking at your blank page in your moleskin or have a new Google Docs open with the cursor just blinking at you - blink - blink, blink, begging and winking at you to try your luck on the blank canvas. So where do you begin? How do you know the seed of an idea you’ve chosen is even a great one? ![]() ![]() I mean - there’s a plethora, just an endless supply of melodies, lyrics, concepts etc. ![]() Here’s a question - not just for beginning songwriters but for established pros: Hmm - What to write a song about? Or maybe it's not so much what to write - but what direction to actually focus on when you’re in your session. ![]()
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