Listed below are some methods to evaluate whether or not you might be writing “higher” industrial songs. No one among these measures alone determines “writing higher,” however placing all of them collectively offers you a reasonably good sense of your progress:

Are you writing extra distinctive concepts?

Have a look at the songs you wrote a 12 months in the past in comparison with those you might be writing now. Be sincere,  are your titles extra distinctive now? If that’s the case, you might be shifting ahead.

Are you getting higher responses to your music?

Getting nice suggestions from business individuals is the last word aim. Are you getting higher responses now in comparison with a 12 months in the past? If that’s the case, you’re going in the correct route.

Are your songs structurally higher now than they have been a 12 months in the past?

Are you protecting the rhyme scheme constant in your entire verses? Ask your self “are my verses the identical size?” In comparison with a 12 months in the past, are you extra constant in regard to your music construction?

Do your songs as we speak help your hook extra successfully? A giant merchandise on the Writing Better Songs Checklist!

Are you staying on matter extra now than you have been a 12 months in the past when your lyric wandered throughout?

Are your melodies extra recent and fascinating?

Evaluate them to songs you wrote a 12 months in the past. Are you enjoying the identical three chords and feels? Or have you ever branched out into extra fascinating melodies?

Are your rhyming traces getting higher?

You must be brutally sincere right here. All of us are inclined to choose our rhyming traces if we’re not cautious. Are your rhyming traces simply nearly as good because the traces they observe? You might be shifting ahead should you can see a noticeable distinction within the high quality of your rhyming traces.

Are you able to inform a distinction?

Are you able to inform the distinction in songs you wrote just lately and ones you wrote a 12 months in the past? When you have been making lots of progress, you need to be capable to inform a distinction. I counsel saving this writing higher songs guidelines assessing your songs with it frequently.

All the very best!  ~MD

Marty Dodson is a multi-hit songwriter, co-founder of SongTown, and co-author of  The Songwriter’s Information To Mastering Cowriting and Music Constructing: Mastering Lyric Writing