Songwriting For Beginners - Write Your First Song Now!

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Video Chapters
00:00 Songwriting For Beginners - With A Dice! :)
01:14 Songwriting For Beginners - Chord Progression
04:58 Songwriting For Beginners - Adding The Lyrics
07:18 Songwriting For Beginners - Verses
10:35 Songwriting For Beginners - Chorus
13:52 Songwriting For Beginners - Song Structure
17:00 Songwriting For Beginners - Verse & Bridge
18:59 Songwriting For Beginners - Dynamics

[tonygram]

I been learning guitar from you for about 8 months now. Studying for two hours a day. Never missing a day. My daughter is getting married in September and I’m writing a song for her for the wedding no one knows. They don’t even know I’m playing guitar. So this is going to be something. I been writing poems my whole life. Songs I never did. I’m picking out a strumming pattern. Wish me luck. I owe what happens all to you Justin!

[brisleeadams]

Hey! That's my line! "Cause every watermelon heart is red!" ;) It's gold, ha ha!!! Cheers mate !

[qrplife]

You’ve revealed either the brilliance of pop music writing or that we humans are quite easily entertained.

[cdusty]

I’ve been writing down random lyrics for over a year now. I had no idea how put them to music. This is so inspirational. Thank you so much Justin

[Ghonosyphlaids]

Lyrical analysis:
Man decides to end it all after wife gives him cold shoulder while decorating beach house

[usejustonce]

5 minutes in and I'm loving this! Can't wait to see where this goes!

[dylanwilson-browne]

“Slap a naked chicken, ugh, that might have some weird connotation” 18:14 had me dying 😂

[bobbieneedham]

I've been songwriting for quite a while. Sometimes I get stuck in my usual rut but this is definitely a "rut buster". Thanks so much. I've got a great chorus based on the dicey chord progression method.

[JZaga]

One of the best episodes all around, Fun, Interesting, helpful and really inspiring... Thanks Justin

[jakehoward]

Good work keeping a straight face on “I like the smell of new chairs”. I would have cracked up.

[aaiaaiaa]

It gave a great idea of the basic s of songwriting.. unlike other people who only share tips...

[adnanehajjiya]

This is brilliant I can't describe how amazed Iam, I guess we need more songwriting lesson for beginners JUST WOW WOW WOW ! THANK YOU SO MUCH JUSTIN.

[MrCk]

Used to spend hours on Justin’s website as a kid. Thank you for teaching us for all these years bro

[sergiofialho]

I always wanted to learn about music structure. Thanks! What about another lesson without the dice? Explaining a bit of your choices and feeling, :)

[lakshyadheer]

This was the perfect lesson, and I'm no beginner guitarist. (maybe a beginner in terms of songwriting)
This might make less sense to complete beginners, but it's one of those things which resolves a lot of your earlier learning and combines it into something new.

This is the beginning of the end-game for a musician.
Love,
LD

[bengoise]

Ha! Haha! got stuck in a song for a while, or more precisely with the chorus that should follow the two finished verses. wasn ´t happy with any chorus part i came up with. now i did "the diceman" and it gave me a direction! thank you so much for coming up with this, Justin!
By the way: I hope I will win in the lottery soon, so i can pay you off for everything you did for evolving me and my guitar skills and my (because of you) still growing love for this instrument!🙂
thx a lot

[harwoods_]

Hi! i have just started to learn guitar, i don't even have a guitar yet XD I was looking at tutorials and have come accross you and i am in love with your teaching technique, i have learn more in your videos than in two years worth of music lessons at school!!! thank you so much x

[nestordvtapal]

I love this man. Thank God! Someone has a good talent like this who loves to share things like this ;)

[sandybathwater]

about 4 minutes in, I realized I have been over complicating things for like 30 years because I never learned theory. I intuitively know lots of stuff, can jam with anyone... but I don't understand what I am doing. Being able to box things like this is mind-blowingly simple. (slaps forehead)

[DaveDickens]

I'm an amateur composer and have been writing songs/instrumentals since school days (a long time ago :-)). I have been asked to do a workshop for some teenagers and your video has been an inspiration, thank you. Cheers Dave