Hi everyone. New songwriter here, real name is John.
Every time I post a song in the finished songs section I was wondering if anyone would be interested in my posting a ‘how I developed the song’ in this section?
To set expectations, I am a complete beginner. I just checked the date and I finished my first song on October 25th. I’ve finished 5 more since though so they seem to be coming thick and fast. A good friend messaged me wanting to discuss my creative process and that made me wonder if I even have one. I think he meant “Where does a 60 year old bloke who has never tried to write songs before find them from? How does it happen?”. It is a valid question and it might be that my trying to answer it openly on the forum will help some other beginners.
I don’t profess to be particularly talented and I certainly don’t speak from any great experience so I hope nobody thinks I am trying to teach anything, especially since nearly everyone here has done much more that I have. I am not qualified in any way to teach anything about songwriting. But I think I will be able to articulate my thought process in developing songs. I’m willing to try it anyway.
I’ll post something on my first ever song ‘Don’t Say My Name’ some time this week hopefully and see if it is of any use to anyone.
Cheers - John.
