How to Write Lyrics and Melodies That Aren't Embarrassing - Tiny Tuesday Tips with sTuart!

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[00:03] I've been on a songwriting kick lately.

[00:06] I've been writing songs. That's been

[00:08] like my hobby for the last couple weeks.

[00:11] When I was younger, I wrote songs

[00:13] constantly. And then when I was less

[00:15] younger, I wrote songs all the time. And

[00:18] then I kind of like took a step back.

[00:20] But now writing a lot of songs, guys.

[00:23] And here's what I've discovered. I've

[00:25] always known this, but I've like

[00:27] re-established it for myself. This is a

[00:30] tiny Tuesday

[00:36] tip. I've always known that you're

[00:39] supposed to leave a lot of space in your

[00:41] melody. You're supposed to leave a lot

[00:43] of empty space. Everybody knows that.

[00:45] You've heard it a thousand times. It's

[00:46] not the notes, it's the space between

[00:48] the notes. Yeah, great. Okay, you leave

[00:50] space. Leave space. Perfect. Even when

[00:52] you're thinking, "Okay, I have to leave

[00:54] empty space." I bet you're still not

[00:57] leaving enough empty space. Listen to

[01:00] any of the bands that you like other

[01:02] than Arctic Monkeys. Arctic Monkeys

[01:04] don't count. He Alex Turner leaves no

[01:06] space and he makes it work somehow. But

[01:09] everybody else leaves twice as much

[01:13] space as you are leaving. So here's my

[01:15] tip. When you're writing lyrics and you

[01:17] write like blinkity blinky blinky blow

[01:20] and then okay, there's going to be a

[01:21] little space and then it goes blinky

[01:23] blinky blinky blah. Great. And then a

[01:26] little bit of space. Blinky blinky

[01:27] blinky blue. Little bit of space. Blinky

[01:30] blinky blinky ble. Little bit of space.

[01:33] Great. Oh man, you're off to such a good

[01:35] start. You want to leave so much more

[01:37] space than that. So, what you actually

[01:40] want to do is go blinky blinky blinky

[01:42] blah. Leave a little bit of space. Keep

[01:46] leaving space where you thought you were

[01:48] going to put the next line. Then blinky

[01:52] blinky blah. You put the next line right

[01:54] there. Here's what I'm trying to say.

[01:56] You're writing out lyrics. I have a

[01:57] lyric book around here somewhere. Hang

[02:03] on. Okay, look. I've written lyrics

[02:07] right here. Right here. There's lyrics.

[02:10] And another line, then another line,

[02:11] another line. Guys, here's what I'm

[02:14] saying. Don't do this first line and

[02:17] then have a moment and then go to the

[02:18] next line. Do the first line, then leave

[02:22] space for an entire another line of

[02:25] lyrics, but don't sing anything, and

[02:29] then go to the second line of lyrics.

[02:32] You're thinking, "Uncle Stewart, this is

[02:33] crazy. That's way too much empty space."

[02:36] Unless it's Arctic Monkeys or like um

[02:39] just like mainstream pop pop pop pop

[02:43] song, you want that extra space in

[02:45] there. It's going to make your song so

[02:48] much cooler. you're going to be way less

[02:50] embarrassed to show it to your friends

[02:52] and family and uh me. You show show me

[02:55] your songs. I want to hear your songs

[02:56] that you've written. Um I don't know.

[02:59] That's my tip. It's h gosh darn it. I'm

[03:02] I like am in the mood to make these tiny

[03:05] tips today, but I'm not I'm not feeling

[03:08] very tipular. I'm feeling

[03:11] just I'm feeling very Steuart today is I

[03:15] think the best way to put it.

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