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Do you find it easy to write songs? Too easy? Well, I at least
have had a problem with this.
If you would visit our home and my garage you would find a lot
of unfinished songs and a lot of manuscript paper with some
notes on them showing that I wanted to say something with music
but never finished it.
Maybe you always finish your songs, record them or have well
documented lists with your songs for easy access. That's the way
I work now but obviously didn't work before.
Nowadays I have started to realize the importance of finishing
songs that I have found enough important to start writing in the
first place.
I think it is important for you and me to complete songs we have
started to write for the following reasons:
1. It is when songs are complete that other people can benefit
from them and you can feel that you have contributed something
to the benefit of others and to yourself.
2. It has a positive effect on your subconsious mind to take
your composition the whole way to completion. It will give you
the realization that you can write songs. It's that simple!
3. As I mentioned before you will avoid having a lot of
unfinished songs hanging around. It can be unfinished recordings
or pieces of paper with a few words on them indicating an
attempt to create something that probably meant a lot then but
now is just words.
If you are signed to a recording company you will be more or
less forced to produce things. The product will hopefully be a
CD with maybe twelve songs on it and a show for your promotion
tour.
It seems like slavery to be forced to produce a product like a
CD. But having this obvious goal to work towards and the
pressure involved can actually promote creativity.
If you are not signed to a record label you can benefit from
working with your songs in a similar way.
1. Set a goal to produce for example three songs and set the
prerequisites like writing one love ballad, one uptempo song and
a waltz.
2. When you have made the songs record them and burn them on a
CD.
3. Learn the songs by heart and sing and play them for your
friends.
Doing this will increase your faith in your ability to produce
songs and I think you will feel a greater joy and satisfaction
in your great enterprise to write songs for the benefit of
mankind and, of course, yourself.
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