December 30, 2025

SongwritingWithGuitar

Why Your Best Songs Start Before You Sit Down to Write

Most songwriting advice focuses on technique. Chord choices. Rhyme schemes. Song structures. Productivity hacks. All useful, all necessary, and all slightly incomplete. Because long before a song takes shape on a page or in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), something else is already at work. Songwriting often happens before you sit down to write. Lines […]