{"id":414,"date":"2011-09-01T13:05:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2013-03-23T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T21:40:09","slug":"tips-to-get-you-out-of-your-songwriting-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Tips To Get You Out Of Your Songwriting Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes writing songs is a free flowing &#8211; instant process&#8230; The muse takes over and you just channel and capture. It&#8217;s best to just let go and keep putting pen to paper.<\/p>\n<p>But there are those <em>other<\/em> times, and those are times we are all familiar with. Any songwriter knows what its like to meddle indecisively for hours at a time to try to get the line or section right.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone in a rut, remember, back to BASICS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Get the concept clear, don&#8217;t linger over saying the line the perfect way the first time&#8230; Don&#8217;t worry, songwriting is more about rewriting than it is about writing.\u00a0At first, just write out each section with the lines that as simply and directly as possible, tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a pretty basic rundown of some more ideas and tips to get you out of your songwriting funk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_415\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Songwriting-Tips-To-Get-You-Out-Of-Your-Funk.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-415\" title=\"Songwriting Tips To Get You Out Of Your Funk\" src=\"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Songwriting-Tips-To-Get-You-Out-Of-Your-Funk-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Songwriting Tips To Get You Out Of Your Funk\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Songwriting-Tips-To-Get-You-Out-Of-Your-Funk-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Songwriting-Tips-To-Get-You-Out-Of-Your-Funk-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Songwriting-Tips-To-Get-You-Out-Of-Your-Funk.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Songwriting Tips To Get You Out Of Your Funk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/blog.discmakers.com\/2011\/08\/songwriting-and-writers-block-11-tips-to-help-the-songwriter-get-unstuck\/<\/p>\n<p>Have the best day you can have!<\/p>\n<p>Jamie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes writing songs is a free flowing &#8211; instant process&#8230; The muse takes over and you just channel and capture. It&#8217;s best to just let go and keep putting pen to paper. But there are those other times, and those are times we are all familiar with. Any songwriter knows what its like to meddle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieleger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}