Songwriting Tips You Need To Know - Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Shania Twain)

With credits for artists such as Ed Sheeran, James Bay, Shania Twain and Shawn Mendes, songwriter and producer Jake Gosling knows a thing or two about songwriting, here are his top tips!

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[axel.lessio]

1:36, Ed Sheeran's philosophy when he writes a bad song isn't "move on, don't worry about it", but rather "give it to another artist and get royalties anyways". 😂

[immattbailey]

The best thing he said and best advice was it’s hard writing songs on your own, for 8 years this was me, I felt pressure to write the whole myself, never had good producers until last year I found an amazing producer, I wrote I reckon maybe 80 percent of it and he did the rest together with me . And it paid off, best thing I’ve ever put out so far 😊my phone blew
Up with messages the day it came out saying how good it was .

[edybrian]

Lifted a weight off my shoulders, felt pressured by myself for not liking my own stuff, but I'll keep going until something I love comes up.

[AlyssaMarie]

This is honestly so informative. I seem to come up the choruses at random parts of my days. I guess I really just need to formulate a story around it. Thank you! Wish I could write with someone like you someday!!

[rouevalentino]

i think writer's block comes from you overthinking of what to say and how to say it rather than just saying whatever comes to your mind however you first think of saying it regardless of how bad it sounds.

[GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

The melody of a song can be incredibly simple and still sound amazing. For example, the ascending background chorus in 'Hello Goodbye' by The Beatles, 'Hello Goodbye Hello Goodbye....', that's just the ascending major scale ( do-re-me-fa-so-la-ti-do )!

[calistusfrancis]

Best secret don't be pressured to finish a song in a day or a week let the song take how long it wants you to take to finish it.

[eliebranche]

!!! 0:58 this is soooo trueee, this always happens to me, whenever i'm in class these ideas just pop in my head and i can't record melodieeess n it really sucks so i write a lot of lyrics in my school books, literally every book of mine has lyrics in the corners of the pages

[GaryMeadowsMusic]

I haven't really written with others very often but going to give it a try.

[MrJondinham]

Ideally I think it's best to try and write something that means something. But a hell of a lot of songs don't seem to mean much. My favourite songwriter has always been John Lennon. He wrote a lot of meaningful songs but a lot of my favourites of his he admitted himself didn't mean anything. It doesn't make any difference to me, a song like Rain or Hey Bulldog meant nothing but I can still listen to them all day. Even a pointless story if told brilliantly with great melodies, rhythm, instrumentation can be a great song.

[ErminDCruz]

I've been writing songs and composing music for the last 7 years....your video has inspired me in some way or the other. I have always been scared to release my music....starting to work on it from today! thanks

[jakubwegner]

Hey, I really appreciate your poster behind the computer. That’s typical design for Polish posters so I recognised it immediately. Real work of art!

[RobinMacGregor]

Thanks for this. I'm a songwriter in the Scottish Highlands. Really interesting to watch.

[probethedeep]

For me it’s vital to finish a song in one sitting. You capture the mood and moment fully

[dainewilliams]

being around and working with articulate professionals is a plus

[AwesomeG]

The cooking analogy really resonated with me. Undercook, like soft cookies 🍪

[didcomusic]

So true. I don't really understand when ideas are coming, it is strange and weird because sometime nothing comes during few days and at one moment there is a trigger. And Ideas are moving you toward a direction which is often not expected ! It's really like surfing a wave ...

[nikkiipou]

this clear my mind up, thanks u so much! ❤

[inkosiingosi]

The main challenge I face while writing a song is staying to the topic. And every time I edit my lyrics, they loose their original vybe.

[neutralearth]

Excellent Video! Love your content! Thanks for sharing your considerable talents!
We are a couple of old school guys that have been creating and recording together since 1972!
Now we live in different states and use two TASCAM DP-32's in our home recording studio's to record our original music by sending SD cards back and forth (I said we were old school) then we post it on our YouTube channel. We do it just for fun and keeping our friendship alive despite the miles between us. We even made a video showing our songwriting and recording process.