https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:06:14 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54678 Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:39:15 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club coolalf https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54678 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54677 Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:13:02 +0000 NO!  You cannot write songs!  There are too many songwriters already!  ;D

Just kidding.  Actually, these forums are the perfect place to start.  Read the articles, get feedback, etc.  I think my songwriting has improved greatly since I started getting honest criticism.  Its not just the feedback on my own songs, but reading the feedback on others' songs helps me organize my thinking so I actually have more to work with up in the old noggin.

I am a big fan of  " (insert topic) For Dummies" books.  I highly recommend Songwriting For Dummies.  

Many of us have our own mp3's posted in various places on the Internet, including http://mp3.moosoft.net Good luck, and hope to be reading and hearing your songs soon!  ]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club maxwell https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54677 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54676 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:07:09 +0000
I am definitely going to check out the songwriting articles on this page.   I just found pguitar noise like 2 weeks ago and I think it is really going to help me play and write.  Actually, it has already helped me.

Thanks again!
Purple

Noteboat, my picking is already seeing improvment.  I hadn't completely lost it but it is definitely returning, thanks again for those exercizes.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club purple https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54676 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54675 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:39:53 +0000
Check out "So you want to be a songwriter"

and the two linked at the bottom of this post.

Sunday Songwriter's just started up again, now is a good time to join in.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54675 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54674 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:30:29 +0000
So if you want to write, then write. It may be a bit laborious and even naive at first, but don't worry about it, it will get easier. But a few years from now, if someone wants you to play in their cover band, run away, you'll never be able to get into that... But that's not necessarily a bad thing!]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club A-J Charron https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54674 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54673 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:32:53 +0000
Melodies popping into your head - Good

Playing things that sound cool - Good

Tape recorder? Yes

Record things that sound cool? Yes

Too early? No. Go for it.

Reassured now? Pop over to the Sunday Songwriters page here, and pick yourself a title.

Best,


Alan :-)

]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Alan Green https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54673 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54672 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:08:00 +0000
One of my earliest memories dates back to when I was maybe 6 years old... I would hear a melody in my head, and want to write it down.  My parents had some books of folk songs and early American tunes and such, and I'd sing them to myself (I could barely read the lyrics) until I found a note that matched what I heard in my head.  Then I'd laboriously copy down the note from the staff above it.

I had no concept of keys, accidentals, whatever... but I was putting down the music I heard.

As far as musical background goes, did you ever watch Jeopardy?  Listen to the theme song?  Merv Griffin wrote that, and he's not exactly Grammy material.  But every time they play it he gets money added to his royalty check.

Sure, the fact that he created the show has a lot to do with that... but the point is, it's not ability or education that makes a tune... it's a songwriter.

If you want to be one, be one!

Tom]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club NoteBoat https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-54672 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-1240 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:48:51 +0000
I actually have been playing guitar for a several years on and off but never really had much time to devote to it so I never really got better so I am still a beginner.  Recently have had a lot more time to play.  My question is, is being a beginner, am I already able to write songs?  I have ideas for songs sometimes when I am doing the randomest things, melodies will pop in my head or some lines for lyrics.  I also when fooling around with the guitar start playing things that I think sound cool.  I have just recently been trying to write down all my lyrical ideas (I even write down my ideas that aren't music related).  Should I have a mini-tape recorder that I can hum the melodies into?  Should I also record the guitar parts that I think sound cool?  Some of the song ideas I have, I don't think I have the ability (yet?) to translate them to a musical instrument.  For an added note, I am not completely ignorant to music theory.

I guess I kind of just need reassurance.  I am a perfectionist and am overly critical of myself, in a way I am just afraid that all the musical ideas I have are bad.  Basically, is it ever to early to attempt writing songs?]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club purple https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/can-i-write-songs/#post-1240