A good song is about its melody and feel. A song can have a lot of good elements, but ultimately what matters is how a song makes us feel while we listen to it. A music artist is always bothered about how to write a song that fans get mad about. If this question also bothers you, then you are at the right place. In this blog, we will discuss some great tips about how to give a song that feel, which makes fans stick to it. So keep reading!
1. Let Your Mind Be Free!
Writing a song or creating music is a creative process. Creativity is about ideas that come to our mind and not what we force ourselves to do. Sitting in front of your instruments, trying to play something new, forcing your mind to create something new may not help. The best ideas are those that spring up suddenly in our mind while you are doing something else. Similarly a melody might just come out of nowhere. Have an idea of what you want to write, then let your brain be free. Let ideas come, and as it comes grab it and try to develop it from there on.
2. Try To Use All Chords!
There may always be a few sets of chords that you are most comfortable with. When trying to write a new song, you naturally begin with those chords or try to create something out of them. But doing this will limit your songs. Try to use all the chords and notes on the instrument that you use. Let your music be diverse and incorporate a lot of different notes to become a complex yet beautiful peace.
3. Cooperate!
There is no necessity to do everything on your own. Nobody is a jack of all trades. Everybody has some special quality thus some may naturally have a good sense of music and some may be good with words writing great lyrics. It’s best to work together as a team. Find some talented and equally passionate friends to work with you. Cooperate and develop a song together!
4. Play With Structures!
A song has different parts like chorus, verse, instrumental, bridge and so on. Arrangement of these parts in a particular order can be called as structure of the song. Now, it is common for music artists to get comfortable with a particular type of song structure over time. Then wherever they attempt to make a new song, thoughts naturally flow in that type of structure and you end up making several songs with a similar structure. If this happens with you, take note of this and try to avoid it next time. Experiment with several types of structure for every new song and you may be surprised to see that changing structure may change the entire feel of our songs. Find a perfect structure for each song.
5. Make Relatable Lyrics!
One of the most attractive parts of a song is relatable lyrics. If a song relates to a particular situation or event in life, people start to enjoy it naturally. It makes the song more than just music, but a reminder of a situation or celebration of an event. Therefore try to keep your lyrics simple and inspired by real life situations as much as possible.
There are many more tips that can be given to write a great song, but above are the most general ones. These tips don’t deal with technicalities of music, but give you a general idea about what goes into making a great song. So even if you are a new music artist, try following these above tips and you will surely get good results. All the best!