Songwriting: How To Get Ideas (part 2)
January 22nd, 2007
How do we invent new musical ideas? Analyzing chord progressions of great songs is a good way to build your vocabulary. When I hear chords or riffs that really interest me, I’ll write them down and try to adapt them for my own use.
For instance, when I heard the tune “Save Tonight” by Eagle Eye Cherry, I became very interested in writing a song that consisted of the same chords over and over. I got out my guitar and experimented with a few progressions, until I came up with the |E |B-7|Cmaj7|G A| that became “Hold Me ‘Til I’m Free”. By the way, those lyrics started with the title.
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