Write pop songs yourself

General information about pop songs

• The word "pop" can be derived from "popular", among other things. In this definition, pop songs are popular songs, which means that they have entertainment value and are therefore suitable for the "mainstream".
• Pop songs mostly deal thematically with love, heartbreak, feelings and self-reflection or simply with fun, joy, party and dance.
• It's often about missing someone or giving yourself to your emotions. There are of course happy or melancholy pop songs.
• Pop songs are notable for being easy to memorize because they have catchy melodies and choruses that are easy to remember.

This is how you write songs yourself

1. In order to write pop songs yourself, you should already have a musical understanding. At best, you play an instrument such as piano or guitar yourself and are able to play chords or chords yourself. To put scores on paper.
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2. Pick a language that you are ideally fluent in and that you want to write the song in.
3. Think of a topic you want to write about. Should it be a love song? Should it be melancholy or romantic? Slow or fast? Or should it be more of a good mood song after all?
4. Without a melody, every song is a piece of poetry, a poem, since the lines usually rhyme at the end.
5. So the first thing you should do now is determine what your rhyme scheme should look like.
6. If you are musically talented and have mastered an instrument, it can also make sense that you first play a little on the instrument for yourself. Great songwriters (= songwriters or lyricists) like Paul McCartney simply sit down at the piano and the melody flies to them, ideally the right text.
7. You can of course do this step by step.
8. Pop songs usually have a verse, then the chorus, then another verse, and so on. The chorus should be as memorable as possible. At the To write so it can make sense to start with the chorus.
9. Then write the stanzas like a poem. Make sure that the rhyme scheme stays the same in each stanza.
10. When you have finished writing the lyrics, you are one step further.
11. If you don't play an instrument yourself, do you know musicians who want to set your written pop songs to music?
12. There are some artists who have their songs written by songwriters and just end up singing the finished product.