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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
06/01/2005 7:12 pm
What I did years ago was drop in the library and get a few books on songwriting. There's some really good ones out there that take you through all the different structures. There's certain formats like AABA, ABAB etc...
and certain 'rules' to follow when writing lyrics like first and second tense, past and present etc.. and not randomly switching mid stream.
Once you know the 'rules', you feel a lot more comfortable breaking them.