Choose one question to answer in the chorus and one for each verse. Select the question you want to answer in your chorus. Write down a short phrase that expresses your answer. Look for images and action words to bring your answers to life. What is the singer feeling, thinking, or saying? What emotion is the singer feeling and how would you describe it? Is it warm or cold?
Dark or light? Read more about adding emotion to your lyrics here. Find the melody in your lyric. Choose one or two of the phrases you came up with in Step 4. Say them out loud. Now say them again with LOTS of emotion. Exaggerate the emotion in the lines.
Notice the natural rhythm and melody of your speech when you say the lines with lots of feeling. This is the beginning of your chorus melody. Play with it until it feels comfortable. Begin to add chords to your chorus melody. Try a simple, repeated chord pattern. Scroll down to the section on Chord Progressions. Excellent tips, thanks Vin — have you made any songs using these?
Would be keen to hear them. Wow, this is a good list. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Yes, add me to your mailing list. Share This:. Take your pulse, use this as your song tempo. Throw a dice and use the number to select how many chords are in your song.
And if that sounds like you, I have some good news: I made you a big list of songs you can write. Specifically, songs you can write. Otherwise, have a browse. See which song prompts inspire you.
Go write some songs, live your dream, change the world. You can use the song prompts as is. You can make changes to the song prompts. You can ignore the song prompts entirely and go where your curiosity takes you. Life is yours for the taking. For a recap on how lyrical hooks work, check out this article. For a recap on how to write a great melody, check out Episode 11 of our series On Songwriting on the video page. Feel free to add your own song prompts in the comments below.
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