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I need your help – Songwriting Clichés

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Tom
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I need your help!

I’ve been thinking of putting together a list of songwriting dos and don’ts. To do this, I’m really interesting in getting together a list of songwriting clichés.

What do I mean?

I mean either a cliché that other people use all the time, like rhyming ‘together’ with ‘forever’, or shifting the key up a tone for the final chorus

or

A cliché that you use too much in your own songwriting, that you wish you could get away from. For example, I like to use Emaj #4 chords (E major with an A sharp in them) way too much.

Songwriting clichés – send them too me! Either in the comments, or to tomslattermusic AT gmail.com

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One Response to “I need your help – Songwriting Clichés”

  1. Jannie says:
    September 25, 2008 at 3:55 am

    The time-worn self/shelf, love/above, bug me, especially the former because it almost never ever works plausibly.

    Jannie
    P.S. I actually have Comments on my blog now – whee-hoo!!

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