021: Five Tips For Budding Songwriters
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In which Paul shares five things he has discovered over the past few months of being a songwriter. Find me on the internet! www.youtube.com www.twitter.com (Fellow mixtapers - don't feel the necessity to turn this week into "songwriting week". I was planning this video before Bill put up his - it was just luck that brought them together 
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November 9th, 2011 - 23:58
top tips thanks, if you get chance will you have a look at some songs I’ve wrote to see what you think, most of them are written about my personal experiences, I’ve not been writing long. anybody else I would welcome your opinions thanks.
November 10th, 2011 - 00:00
My biggest annoyance…singers who write a poem and hand it to me saying they wrote a song telling me to put music to it…hello, me writing music to go with your poem does NOT mean you are a songwriter…learn to play an instrument or at the very least, have a melody in mind for your little poem.
November 10th, 2011 - 00:08
Fair points. Worth Listening to.
November 10th, 2011 - 00:13
Great advice i’m actually applying that now in addition I would love for everyone to check out my song Loss Gravity (original lyrics)
tell me what you think.
November 10th, 2011 - 01:07
What do 10 out of 10 people agree upon?
November 10th, 2011 - 01:10
thanks for this video…
i can write my own song…
once again thanks for the tips…^_^
November 10th, 2011 - 01:50
I completely agree with tip 2. Record anything you can! even if it’s on your cell phone
I like the tips video..this is nice!
November 10th, 2011 - 01:54
hey i wrote a song, will you check it out and see what you think
November 10th, 2011 - 02:39
@songsfrompaul i bet theres more
November 10th, 2011 - 03:17
Nice well thought out tips. Especially the last one, another way I like to express it is this way. What do diamond miners find mostly by far in their work? “dirt and rocks”.
But if they let it depress them they would never find the diamonds.
So you’re right, get good at pulling rocks out and don’t worry about how many diamonds you find, they’ll always be rare, but then they wouldn’t be special otherwise.
November 10th, 2011 - 04:06
You could play Paul McCartney in a bio-pic if you dyed your hair!
November 10th, 2011 - 05:04
This Chris Martin lookalike seems like a really great guy. I knew all these things already (I also learned them the hard way). But it was still very fun to listen to him speak of this topic.
November 10th, 2011 - 05:58
haha “wizard rock”
November 10th, 2011 - 06:43
10 out of 10 people agree with your five tips! Thanks for the tips!
November 10th, 2011 - 07:35
I write music as well =)
Nice tips!
-Hey Shay and the Pretty Penny
November 10th, 2011 - 08:12
I knew some of this already, but it was still pretty helpful. Thanks <3 But I do have one problem…I need help getting second opinions from people who will be impartial, and thus honest! So if some of you could please go to my YouTube channel (click on my name) and comment on how good you think one or two of my songs are, and what could be improved, that would be great! Thanks!
November 10th, 2011 - 08:56
thanks for the tips.
i posted a couple of original songs for everyone to check out. thanks.
youtube.com/watch?v=uHNCkD3-o3g
November 10th, 2011 - 09:17
Thanks for sharing your sound advice. I think they are great tips.
November 10th, 2011 - 09:53
its not tuesday its monday
November 10th, 2011 - 10:49
How many Harry Potter ballads are out there?
November 10th, 2011 - 11:01
First tip is good to hear, most of my songs are very personal. Very nice, I do save my lyrics in my computer, I also save a “rough draft” acapella version. I have forgotten several by the time I get somewhere I can write it down, it is annoying haha
You are a very good song writer, mine are mediocre at best he he. Yeah, most do not make it to the final stages.
November 10th, 2011 - 11:30
You don’t like Harry Potter? What went wrong?
Very good tips!
November 10th, 2011 - 12:02
I agree 100%. I’m a writer, and I was thinking the same thing throughout the video. It’s all excellent advice for any creative pursuit.
Great job, Paul.
November 10th, 2011 - 12:46
Oh Mattie… comments like this are among the many reasons that I <3 you so very much.
November 10th, 2011 - 12:55
You don’t like Harry Potter! NOOOOO!!!
…just kidding. haha.
Great tips- I’ve been there and done that on some of those things where I lost my musical ideas. It’s pretty frustrating when you lose something that was amazing the first time and you didn’t record it!