Stravinsky said, "Given an infinity of possibilities, I could do nothing".
When first starting out in songwriting, it seems like there are a million choices at one’s pencil tip.
Hundreds of chords, thousands of words, and millions of ways to sing a melody.
It seems so daunting.
That’s the way it is any time and artist confronts a blank canvas.
Why not be different.
Be the artist who relishes the blank canvas, the one who can’t wait to get to the creative, constructive moment when you can fill that canvas with several simple statements that brazenly focuses on one emotion one moment in time, one fleeting feeling.
If you ever feel there are too many choices, stop, take a moment, and realize that your song will probably end up with a melody that falls somewhere in the range of just one octave, will contain only a handful of chords, and should have lots of easy, single syllable words on a fourth grade reading level.
And be about just one thing.
The thing that is in the title.
When first starting out in songwriting, it seems like there are a million choices at one’s pencil tip.
Hundreds of chords, thousands of words, and millions of ways to sing a melody.
It seems so daunting.
That’s the way it is any time and artist confronts a blank canvas.
Why not be different.
Be the artist who relishes the blank canvas, the one who can’t wait to get to the creative, constructive moment when you can fill that canvas with several simple statements that brazenly focuses on one emotion one moment in time, one fleeting feeling.
If you ever feel there are too many choices, stop, take a moment, and realize that your song will probably end up with a melody that falls somewhere in the range of just one octave, will contain only a handful of chords, and should have lots of easy, single syllable words on a fourth grade reading level.
And be about just one thing.
The thing that is in the title.
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