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Jeremy Yew has written an interesting post about hearing your song before it’s written.

He writes about artists visualising their works before they’re created, and how songwriting shouldn’t be any different. I agree with him, songwriting is much easier if you have a clear goal or vision of the finished work. Most of the process happens inside your head.

Jeremy’s main points are:

• Most songwriters ‘grasp for tunes from the air’, noodling until something turns up, rather than planning before they begin.
• You can get better results if you ‘hear the music’ in your mind’s ear before you begin.
• After that, the songwriting process is one of fleshing out the existing idea, rather than working without a plan.

He concludes with the idea that ‘a big part of songwriting is having a firm idea of what your song is going to be about’.

I think he’s on to something

Check out Jeremy here.