Guitar Songwriting

Songwriting can come out of anything. The inspiration can be a result of anything and nothing at all at the same time. Most of the time, songs are made from guitars. It is the most accessible instrument, wherever you are, as long as you have the guitar, it’s all good. You can’t bring a piano with you everywhere. That is why the guitar is probably the most popular instrument that you could write a song with. Also, writing a song on a guitar is also much more comfortable and easier. Right now, I’ll tell you my way of writing songs out of a guitar.

Guitar Songwriting – 101

First, pick up your guitar and let your imagination and your creativity fly off the limits. Then conceptualize that idea into something that is playable on the guitar. You can think about the effects, the whole structure and stuff but also prioritize the backbone of the song. You could start with a bunch of chord progressions, a riff, a melody, a lick, or even a rip off of a popular song or just any existing song. Then, let it take you places. Build a chord progression out of it. You could start with a chorus or a verse but chorus usually works.

Guitar Songwriting – music and lyrics

There are no rules in writing a song. Once you have made a progression, add some words to it. Now this is the hard part. Personally I’m not a good lyricist. So what I do, whatever thought I have at the very moment, I write it down. And it’s funny that it would become a song and it would also sound good. Like some cryptic message underneath the lyrics but it’s just something I blurted out of the blue on the process of guitar songwriting.

Guitar Playing Tips

Guitar Playing Tips

Just like the old Beatles song goes “I’ll get by with a little help from my friends.” You can definitely improve your guitar playing with the help of some friends or in your case, with my help. Yeah, we are friends from now on. Anyway, because you are my friend, I’ll be giving you some tips on how to improve your guitar playing. Many beginner guitar players fail early on this part because they lack these tips; they are trying to do everything on their own. That is why failure is always welcomed on their side. But thanks to me, that is will not happen.

Guitar Playing Tips – Improve your guitar playing

Here are some of the useful tips that I promised that would surely improve your guitar playing.

1. Try using chord charts. You can find these on guitar magazines or over the internet. This is a useful tool for you to be able to learn the different guitar chords. Very useful piece of equipment.
2. Do things one at a time. Learning guitar is like eating. You can’t take everything, shove it inside of your mouth and digest it. Take everything one at a time.

Guitar Playing Tips – Necessary Traits

But of course, these tips are useless if you lack the traits of a good guitar player.

1. Perseverance – this is important. If you want to make it, you must have something to push you on your back. Hard work and the will to persevere, you are going to need those.
2. Practice – yes, practice does make things perfect. Besides, it’s all about getting used to it and practice makes sure that you would definitely get used to it. it’s a simple process really try doing or listen to things over and over again, you will get used to it and you would never forget it.

Now that’s it for my guitar playing tips.

Practice always makes everything perfect, and if not, it would alleviate you into something better. But most of the time, we can’t help but accept the fact that it gets boring sometimes. I do believe that too. Especially when you are practicing scales. You have to do it over and over again. But that’s how it is. If you really want to learn, you have to overcome the boredom.

Fortunately for us, there is a way to overcome this. It’s neither a shortcut nor another scheme. It is simply a method of practicing scales. All you have to do is to find a way to spice up and improvise those scales so that they would look exciting and you wouldn’t get bored. That easy. So how do we start?

First, take the pentatonic E scale. Now, does it slowly at first then after a while try to add more notes to it? And then move up and down the fret board. I guarantee you that it is much more fun to do it that way. Sometimes, you don’t have to play the right scale; you just have to make your fingers move independently. Just make sure that the notes are in tune.