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Lyric Writing How to Focus Your Lyric Writing Powers For Maximum Results So you’ve mostly figured out lyric writing but you’re wondering how to make the most of your talents with limited time… the day job, family commitments, getting outside and living a life interesting enough to inspire great songwriting…. It doesn’t feel like there’s enough time, but others have done it… so what’s their secret? I’m constantly reading about and testing ideas from diverse fields to keep fresh and consistently inspired in both my songwriting and my teaching. There are the obvious fields of study like songwriting, music theory and teaching best practices, but I also experiment with ideas from elite level musicianship and athletics, personal productivity, business coaching and marketing. With a little creative thinking you can find songwriting insights in many strange and interesting places. Let’s see what songwriting insights we can find in this marketing framework: What does the market want? What are your strengths? What is your passion? Once we translate this into songwriting speak: 1. What does the market want = who is listening to your songs? What’s your songwriting market? If you’re a lyricist but don’t write music, your market is potential co-writers who can add music to bring your songs to life. If you perform your songs live your market is your audience at live shows and those on your email list and your social media followers. Regardless of where you are with your songwriting, here’s where you can start figuring out your market and who will be listening to your work. Who are you? What’s your story? What can you tell your audience that would help them relate to you as an artist and as a person? Who is your target audience? Who do you sound like? Who wants to hear your music? Where is your format a fit? Where do you need to take your finished (or partial) song With only lyrics, you need to write the music or attract a co-writer who will With lyrics and music that’s ready to record you need to level up to a polished recording - The quality of your audio recording effects where you can distribute it Audio Format - Recorded Songs Demo Quality recorded on your phone is fine for social media Home studio recording might need professional mixing or mastering Radio Ready (Professionally recorded and mastered), ready for distribution to Spotify, CD, iTunes, Synchronization Video Format - video has become an important way to share your music. It could be in the form of a: Performance video of you singing and playing your song Live video footage of you performing in front of an audience A series of still photos with audio track, Or a professional video production shot on a shoestring or with big budget Who would be interested in your song and the format you have will affect where and how you market and share your songs. To help figure out your target audience check out my article on page 8 of the October issue of Write Away Who Are You Writing For? 2. What are your songwriting strengths? Be honest with yourself, nobody’s an expert at everything… so: What aspects of songwriting are your strongest? 08 www.writeawaymagazine.co.uk
Trevor Dimoff Superpowers Lyric writing - titles, imagery, conveying emotions, rhyming, song structure, finishing songs If you write music are your strengths in melody, chord progressions, writing catchy riffs and musical hooks or compelling instrumental parts What can you do best? What can you bring to a co-writing partnership? What other musical strengths do you have? Playing an instrument Singing Leading a band as the frontman/frontwoman Organizing musicians and running rehearsals Where are your strengths outside of but related to music & songwriting? Social Media, getting attention, publicity Building relationships and networks, in person & online relationship building With an audience With other musicians Booking performances Music bloggers Music Industry influencers If you’re not satisfied, it’s time to stretch yourself out of your comfort zone by learning new skills and building up areas where you are aren’t as strong. Instead of learning entirely new skills, you can partner with other songwriters. Co-writing with someone who has complementary strengths, who is strong in areas that you aren’t, opens up possibilities that are otherwise out of your reach. Actions Steps Take a few minutes to review this framework and write down your honest answers in your songwriting notebook. What stands out for you? What do you already have together and what are your next steps? Then take action: email me and let me know what your next steps are… or the most strange and interesting place you’ve found songwriting insights trevor@epicsongwriting.com Which areas do you need to improve or spend more time and energy? You can read about all the necessary songwriting skills in How To Start Writing Songs. 3. What do you love to do? What aspects of songwriting are your areas of genius and passion? Or to ask the same question in a different way: When do you lose time? When you’re writing songs, what are you doing when you don’t notice the time going by? What are you doing when you’re “in the zone”? What’s your songwriting passion? Summary You’ll get your best results when you focus on your songwriting strengths and your songwriting passion . Trevor Dimoff is a songwriter and songwriting teacher, he helps musicians become songwriters at epicsongwriting.com If you’re a musician and ready to learn how to write lyrics and music for your own songs you can Learn How To Write a Song Chorus! www.writeawaymagazine.co.uk 09
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