Writer’s block? Cliches? Kill them both at once!

[alek]

Intro.
I posted a topic with that title on 2 different forums already...
and found strange thing, nobody  replied, and that topic had very few views...
Once more, I state it's a strange,
Why it's strange? Because people buy books on songwriting, but ain't interested to get a free tutorial!  
Then I posted reply there, kinda: seems like all the members here are the
Grammy Award winners and top Billboard chart makers, so, they don't need
any tips on songwriting...(moderator deleted it there)

 

Ok, and now a topic itself:

I’d love to share with you my own tips on songwriting(note: it’s about melody, tune, music), 
sure you didn’t hear of them before…
so, come on:
Well, when I started songwriting 10 years ago,
I had a problem, that everybody here knows:

 

WRITER’S BLOCK

 

that disappeared with experience…

but, then later I had another very unpleasant problem:

 

CLICHES…

 

So my 2 tips are about: how to kill those problems both!
 

 

So, what I did: for a while I want to make a beat(maybe a song too) that sounds 
like Camila Cabello’s Havana:
I played/recorded some piano chords (Gm_Cm_D), then added drums, bass,
wah guitar, and then stumbled: what to do the next? Recollected the way
I did it a week ago:

opened sample libraries and chose a female acapella, then transposed it
into Gm, and changed a tempo to 80bpm (everything as in my beat)
Next: I cut the acapella on parts, some changed the order of those parts,
moved them (right or left) to put them in time with the beat.
Important: if I had previously this chord progression

Gm_Cm_DX2

then I added a new progression to existed:

Ebmajor7_F_Bb_Ebmajor7_F_Gm_F_Gm

because the acapella ordered to follow it (chords could be different!)

Conclusion: now I have a song template,
that breaks my cliches with fresh ideas, I can edit it as I want,
but the new ideas are cool, aren’t they?

Interesting? Wait for the next tip soon

PS. This is an audio snippet of what I did:

 

https://soundcloud.com/aleksalt/210718-gm-cm-d-slow