Uninspired Songwriting

So after you're exhausted cleaning house, organizing your music papers, doing scales and covers and every busy-work thing you can think of and you still aren't in the mood to write, try these just to go through the motions at least of putting a song together. I went through a few of my scribbles recently and found several I could actually combine and the three became the sections of a fairly decent tune with just a little adjusting here and there. Your sketches of today may well become the album cut you get placed next pitch. You need to get something--anything--recorded first, though. It's okay to be uninspired--every songwriter is, but most jobs don't require that. You just need to show up and do your job. The inspirations may get you the big bonuses, but it's the everyday work that pays the bills, most of us find.

So just keep writing, and find ways to keep it fun!

(C)2005 Cindy Lee Haddock

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