Olaf Stando

Hey there, I have just joined this forum and I see that there's loads and loads of experienced songwriters on here, I hope to learn a lot in this place! I have recently started songwriting, and this is my newest original song: If you could give me some feedback regarding the vocals, that'd be smashing. Any constructive critique is more than welcome! Thanks guys :3

You can get inspiration from absolutely anywhere - I wrote my recent song while I was in a crowded carriage of the London Underground. I think that a good way to inspire a song is based on your own observations - this makes it genuine and yours, not artificially fabricated. Musically, it's good to have a decent jam before you write, try out different keys, picking, chord progressions, tunings etc. I listen to a lot of music, so this also definitely inspires. Oh, and welcome to the forum! I'm even newer than you, but this looks like a cool place, no?

I agree with some of the points, but I think that structure depends on the genre. Again, don't take my comment offensively, I'm utterly inexperienced compared to you guys, but if we take the example of Bon Iver, many of his songs don't appear to have too much of a structure. In some songs, especially from his early work, his songs are raw, but that's the whole beauty of them, because listeners can hear and feel his true expressions. That also depends on the purpose of your songwriting - if the main purpose is to become widely known, hooks are important to get people "hooked" on your music, but if it's only to express your feelings through songwriting, I tend to keep it as natural as possible and not try to have hooks if they don't fit in with the song.

Sounds like a pretty awesome technique, "We Are Ahe Champions" is such a good example, because just as you lot, I always had to hear this "of the world" bit, so I was effectively going back to the start of the song. I'm totally new to songwriting, but what do you guys think of using instrumental bridges in between of every verse and chorus, just to make a song more interesting and make it sound less generic? After all, a lot of people complain about so many pop songs consisting of only 3 or 4 chords, in the same, repetitive progression throughout.