Website: https://tunein-toneup.com/ Post: https://tunein-toneup.com/2017/12/31/guitar-lesson-songwriting-tips/ In guitar lesson 27, Dan and I look at the thorny topic of songwriting and arranging original songs. Starting with a riff I wrote a long time ago and with lots of background discussion about how to write songs in general, Dan develops my idea and gives me some options for second guitar parts and song structure. By the end of our lesson we really have something which I can take away and work on. We hope you like this lesson and will look forward to some further developing of our song next lesson. 5:14 Gary’s riff and the basis for our song lesson 8:30 Discussion of famous songs and an examination of what makes a good song 12:30 Tweaking the main riff 14:30 Starting to consider a melody which will work over the riff 18:05 Exploring the chorus and finding a way back into the key of the main riff 20:31 A potential melody as a hook 26:46 A review of what we’ve done so far 29:33 Further work on the melody for the verse and chorus 31:49 Using palm muting for dynamics 35:51 A bit of harmonic analysis on the chords we are using 37:15 Harmonic analysis of Bruce Springsteen’s chromatic run in ‘Born to Run’ How to play 'Born to Run': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfZAColCjbs 41:10 Using shared chords to move between keys 44:14 Adding interest to arrangements / second guitar parts 50:19 Explaining ideas for using octaves and repeating licks