Songwriting Tip:
How to use your notebook of ideas to write songs
Singer/Songwriter Mike Doughty talks about the songwriting process for his latest record, Haughty Melodic:
"..what I ended up doing was just journaling; making sure that I spent an hour every day journaling, just sort of free writing."
He continues:
"As time went on, two things started to happen. One was that I started listening to music really intensely again—being on the road alone in a rental car, I had all kinds of time to listen to music—so I started getting influenced by stuff again. And then the other was that I went back to the notebooks and started picking out phrases, which isn’t something I had really done before. There would just be three or four words together which were sort of mysterious or resonant, so I would take them out and keep them. I ended up with a long list of all these little phrases, and as songs started to come to me, I would just go to the list and plug them in as they seemed appropriate. That’s how the songs took shape."
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