For any songwriter, uniqueness is a vital pursuit. Why would you need to write one thing that appears like another tune on the market, regardless of how good it’s?

In each tune you write, you want to hope that there’s one thing distinctive about it in order that your followers can inform that it’s you they’re listening to, not another singer-songwriter on the market.

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More often than not uniqueness occurs simply in efficiency. However let’s transfer even additional again, earlier than the tune will get carried out. You need some uniqueness on the precise writing stage as effectively. And ideally, you’d like to select a subject to your tune that’s not been achieved to demise.

However distinctive tune matters are arduous to discover, as a result of virtually all the things that’s fascinating sufficient to write about has been written about earlier than.

So what do you do? The very first thing is to cease worrying about being distinctive together with your tune’s subject, and begin specializing in methods you might be distinctive with your take on a tune’s subject.

That contact of uniqueness doesn’t want to be a lot. Your tune’s subject may be how a lot you like somebody, which covers greater than half the songs ever written. However all it wants is a little bit of your individual angle on the subject:

• “Nikita” (Elton John-Bernie Taupin). Frequent subject: Man loves somebody he can’t have. Elton’s take: the opposite particular person is a communist East German border guard.
• “Rebellion” (Matt Bellamy of ‘Muse’). Frequent subject: Freedom of the folks is important. Bellamy’s take: an ode to the protesters on the 2008 G20 summit.
• “Solsbury Hill” (Peter Gabriel). Frequent subject: Want to transfer my life in a brand new course. Gabriel’s take: a poetic metaphor of an eagle coming to ‘take the singer residence’

You get the thought: when you write a love tune the place probably the most poignant message is solely that you just love somebody, however you haven’t given some other form of picture to plant within the listeners’ musical brains, you’ve actually not achieved something to distinguish your tune from a whole lot or hundreds of others on the market.

So arising with a singular tune subject might not provide you with what you’re actually in search of, as a result of if a subject itself is simply too distinctive, it might not make the emotional connection to your listeners you’re in search of.

It’s much better to select a extra commonplace subject after which spend extra time considering of your individual distinctive tackle that subject.

Written by Gary Ewer. Observe on Twitter.

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