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
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!!