No doubt, you have heard of famous song-writing teams like Kander and Ebb, George and Ira Gershwin, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. One thing, everyone has in common is the need to communicate musical ideas. Writing music down is the easiest way to communicate if you don’t have the person in front of you, showing

I recommend that if you have an idea for a song, record the idea first and then figure out what you are missing. If you have a melody but no words, you can develop lyrics in many different ways. I’m going to talk about two. One way is to organize what you want to say

I recommend that you create the melody first, if you don’t already have one. So, you have an idea for a song and you took the first step and recorded the idea. You took the second step and found out which of the following was missing (Melody, Lyrics, Chords, Rhythm) and you have found that

Different artists write songs in different ways. I know musicians who write the melody first and add words later and later still, create a chord structure to make the song. Other musicians write the words first and then add a beat/rhythm to the words and write the melody to the beat. Some play chords and