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Jason Blume's Book: Six Steps to Songwriting Success, Revised Edition: The Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs


You've worked very hard.
You've invested more time and money creating and recording your compositions. At some point along the way, you ask yourself, "How can I take my craft to the next step?"

The Internet is helping to level the playing field between the well-connected and the not-so-well connected . It is our hope, that these pages can offer songwriters and composers ideas for developing the craft of songwriting now as well as how to protect and submit the finished and even the "not-yet-completed" songs.

Original music is needed not only by the single song artist and performing groups and bands, but for all types of other uses including television background music, radio jingles, theme music for games, cd-roms etc.. Songs are sought after by top music publishers, producers, managers, film & TV music supervisors, and instrumental music libraries in addition to the big record lables and indies.

What if you are sitting on a composition that could be generating royalty income for you, but you cannot get it in the hands of the right artist or producer? It certainly is easier to promote your music as a singer-musician-songwriter who can perform at physical venues to increase buzz and popularity of original music. In conjunction with a webpage and social media buzz where samples of the music can help generate larger audiences, the combination of performer and creator is a very viable way of getting original music noticed.

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Listening to a range of music is the key to successful songwriting. What different styles of music do you listen to? How do you find out about new or different styles of music? How can listening to different songs actually influence the way you make your own song?

How do we find song ideas?

We need to develop our ability to recognize and create lyric ideas from events in everyday life. Where may you ask can you find these ideas. Here are some suggestions.

Television presents a variety of controverisial and informative topics which may help you identify and solidify your own point of view on a subject. Radio talk shows are another source of this type of programming and also include emotional and conflict filled situations depicted by callers. Especially the anonymity of radio brings out more substantive dialog. Try to find a psycologist or other human interest program for some real insights into human behavior. When all else fails, listening to the radio may help us come up with our own ideas based on where someone else did not take their composition to.

Books and poetry can also get our creative juices flowing. Sometimes we come up with ideas based on topics of discussion with friends or an overheard discussion. Regressing and examining one's own life experience can also come up with topics that interest us personally. Once you make an effort to search out for new ideas, it will be amazing how you respond to new potential ideas on an ongoing basis. It is a good idea to have some type of notepad, micro cassette recorder or other handy device along or at least a pen and paper to make quick notes if you do come up with ideas before they are gone again.

If your lyric idea can help people express their hopes, desires, problems, conflicts or dreams which are normally held inside, you will have created a vehicle for expressing these ideas.

There are many types of songs ranging from themes of love, message songs, novelty songs, songs written purely for entertainment, event and holiday songs, but they should be expressive if they are to strike a note with listeners. Reviewing and studying the most popular songs in history as voted on by the gold record standard, and their lyrics (those that went gold and platinum) in the popular music style this is a great way to hear and learn what has worked in the past and use some of the timeless influences as a springboard for new creations.


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Michael Jackson was truly a great entertainer, whatever you may think of his personal life and the tabloid news. Starting out at a very young age, he successfully entertained millions and was a true icon that helped define musical trends in the 70s and 80s. You can listen to a sampling of his songs (free) as a tribute to remember some of the songs that made him so popular. Our sympathies go out to his family, friends and fans around the world. ....hear Michael Jacksons songs under the "J" s


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Exercise in Collaboration

A good way to try out collaborating with some of the best songrwriters in the world is to take any song that has been a hit or that you really like.

If you want to try your melody writing, put a new melody to the original lyrics. If you want to try your lyric composition, try writing a new lyric for the song melody. This technique is called masking.

Once you complete your work, take the part that you wrote and present it to another cowriter (or yourself) and complete the other part! Instant Song! and you have also received another lesson in song structure, rhyme, song length, how the melody moves and other things that are based on a successful song structure.

Good Luck with those music compositions!

Some World Famous Canadian Musicians Composers and Music Songwriters include:

Oscar Peterson, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams, Bruce Cockburn, Corey Hart, David Foster, David Clayton Thomas, Glenn Gould, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Percy Faith, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Tom Cochrane, Gino Vanelli and Robbie Robertson plus many more.