Is writing your own music hard?

Writing a song is more difficult than it seems: it takes some skills, but with determination, you can get by surprisingly with a few, as long as you keep experimenting. Don't worry if you don't know where to start, start with what you have. Don't worry if you feel overwhelmed because it seems too complicated, keep it simple. If you're doing both, you can write them at the same time you're writing the music, or focus on each one individually.

Whether you write the lyrics first, collaborate with other writers, or create lyrics that suit your music, your goal is to find the perfect combination that somehow expresses the theme of the song, conveys the right mood, and drives and inspires you (and your audience) to want to listen to it. So if you want to write a memorable song that people call “good”, you need to connect emotionally with the listener. Although he lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival liked to write songs about the deep South and, in particular, about the swamp. Composers with publishing contracts (and some self-published producers and composers) will spend much of their time co-writing with artists for their projects, or writing songs and then presenting them to artists.

Many composers say that the talent for writing songs is a special gift, whether you have it or not. There may be periods of time (days or years in some cases) when, no matter what, you can't seem to find the inspiration to write a song. Many people feel that because they don't make money with their songs, they don't play them live, they don't record them, or they don't make a living writing songs, they are not “real composers”. Collaborating with different artists allows you to expand your idea of how music is made; for example, if you collaborate with an artist from R%26B, you may end up composing most of the song “in the box” (in the DAW).