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Songwriting Tips For the Guitarist - Song Structure

Almost any song you hear has a structure at its foundation. Even improvisational, loose format, jazz songs are tied to some sort of song structure.

Learning how songs are "put together" and some common methods for "arranging the pieces" will take you a long way in your songwriting.

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Start Writing Songs on Guitar by Doing "Nothing"

Previously we've discussed some very concrete steps you can take to start writing songs on the guitar.

This topic involves something very un-concrete and un-structured. In fact it's fairly abstract, but it also may be the most important. It has to do with doing nothing! That's right, allowing yourself time to sit with your guitar and do nothing but whatever comes out. Right or wrong, good or bad, pure gold or pure crap!

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How to Find Song Ideas For the Guitar Player

Turn on Your "Radar"

Where do song ideas come from? The answer is everywhere! They are all around us. Ideas can spring from anywhere.

The key to finding these ideas is to "turn on your radar" and always be on the lookout for them. When you are of the mindset that a song idea can come up, no matter where you are, or what you are doing, it is amazing the number of inspired moments you will have throughout the day.

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Songwriting Tips For the Guitar Player

Whether you have been playing guitar for 30 days or 30 years you will, at some point, more than likely be struck by the urge to write your own songs.

I have often said in my guitar lessons courses that the real goal of any musician is to transcend from "thinking" about playing to "not thinking" about playing. To move from re-creating to creating.

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Songwriting Tips For the Guitarist - Start a "Hook Book"

Previously we have discussed various ways to come up with song ideas by simply becoming more "in-tuned" to the world around us.

The next step in that process is to make a record of those ideas as they hit. I can promise you that when a great idea hits, although it might be clear in your mind at that moment, as you progress through the typical meanderings of the day - that "great" idea will be forever gone.

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