How to write a song with a guitar?

People who know how to play other people’s works on the guitar have probably wondered more than once how to write a song with a guitar? After all, performing a song written by yourself is much more pleasant than reproducing someone else’s. So, what knowledge do you need to have in order to write your own song with a guitar? You don’t need to know anything supernatural. It is enough to have a basic knowledge of chords and be able to play them by strumming or strumming. Well, and also have a little control over rhyme and an idea of ​​poetic meters.

Instructions for creating a song with guitar

• Initially, you need to decide on the structure of the song, that is, verses and choruses. Usually there are 2-3 verses and between them a repeating chorus, which may differ from the verse in rhythm and verse size. Next, you need to write the lyrics to the song, if you don’t succeed, it doesn’t matter, you can take a ready-made poem and break it into verses, choose a chorus.
• The next step is to select chords for the text. There is no need to experiment too much; you can choose simple chords, and later add color to them with additional notes. While singing the verse, you should go through the chords until the result seems satisfactory to you. As the selection progresses, you can experiment with different types of combat and try several searches.
• So, we’ve sorted out the verse, let’s move on to the chorus. You can change the rhythm or fingering in it, you can add a couple of new chords, or you can even play other chords than the verse. The only thing you should be guided by when choosing music for the chorus is that it should be bright and more expressive in sound than the verse.
• At all of the above stages, you should always have a voice recorder at hand, otherwise you may miss a good melody, which, as usual, comes unexpectedly. If you don’t have a voice recorder, you need to constantly hum the invented melody so as not to forget the melody. Sometimes at such moments some changes may spontaneously be added to the motive of the song. These are all positive things.
• The next step is to connect the verses with the chorus. You should sing the entire song and, if necessary, refine individual moments. Now you can move on to the intro and outro of the song. Basically the intro is played on the same chords as the chorus to prepare the listener for the main mood of the song. The ending can be played the same way as the verse, slowing down the tempo and ending with the first chord of the verse.

Practice is power

There are several ways to write songs with a guitar. You can’t just put music on a ready-made text, as in this case, but on the contrary, you can write the text to a ready-made guitar accompaniment. You can combine all this and write lyrics while writing music. This option is mainly characteristic of people who compose under a surge of inspiration. In a word, there are enough options, you just need to choose the right one.

The most important point in the question of how to write a song with a guitar is experience, skill, and all this comes only through constant practice. When listening to as many songs as possible by foreign and domestic performers, you should pay attention to how the song is written, its structure, what options for intros and endings are offered in a particular version. You should try to recreate everything you hear on your guitar. Over time, experience will come, with it ease, and subsequently your own style will be formed, both in playing the guitar and in writing your own songs.

Watch the video where the famous music “Love Story” by F. Ley is performed on an acoustic guitar: