Make your own song

There are certain things that separates pro and amateur writers. One thing you should immediately noticed:

a. Pro-songwriters songs are performed in wide variety audience, while amateur writers songs are only listened by family members.
b. Pro-writers songs captivates the community because of its mass public appeal. Amateur writers songs are limited only to herself/himself.
c. Professional songwriters songs conveys a meaningful story to its listeners (theme). Amateur writer songs lyrics are confusing to understand.
d. Great writers of songs can be played in stadiums with people heavily jamming around it. Amateur songs can be boring to listen and can only be played inside the bedroom.

Enough of the comparison, you can immediately noticed that the main lessons we can learn from PRO songwriters is that they write “BIG” songs.

In a biblical battle between David and Goliath, David won. This is not the case with music business, “BIG” songs should always won. They are the ones get noticed, played in radio, stadiums and everywhere while “SMALL” songs written by amateur writers are only played in his/her bedroom, so sad.

How to make your song BIG?

1. Write great lyrics that have clear story.

“Clear story” means it can be understood by any type of listeners. If you cannot write great lyrics. Consider doing some songwriting collaboration work. It should have a theme, which is very useful in classifying your songs in licensing work. Some music consumers or artist are looking for songs with theme about friends, love, work ,etc. It is important to have a theme.

2. Learn to write for mass appeal.

Remember that if you need to write BIG songs, then it should be liked by as many people as possible. This will make your song eligible to be played in stadiums where variety of people are group together , for example in a festival. Writing for mass appeal needs lyrics that can easily relate to people’s lives not yourself. Example of this are songs about problems in the communities like drug addiction.

3. Speed up the tempo of your songs

If you need it to be big and be played in big concert venues, it needs to be up-tempo. No one likes to listen to a slow song in such as crowded audience. They get bored.

4. Strong HOOKs

Do you want them to sing with you? Write great hooks, it is why in every U2 concerts I have seen , people are singing along with Bono for a song like “In the name of love”,written with unforgettable song hooks.Do the same with your songs. Think big and write big, this will make your song stands out in front of million listeners.

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