Songwriting: Useful Articles and Tips

Introduction and Overview

Articles and Tips

Songwriting Tools

Training Opportunities

Ng Wah Lok 
(Founder of Tabernacle Music and Author of Every Time I Pray)

20 Checklists for Songwriters

12 Practical Points for Songwriters

Creating Melodies

Writing Lyrics

Writing Lyrics For A Praise And Worship Song

Mark Snyder
Worship Songwriting: What is the GQ (God Quotient) of Our Worship Songs?

Bob Kilpatrick
How to Write a Really Good Worship Song

Tommy Walker
How I Write Songs

Chris Rice
Songwriting Tips

Paul Baloche
How to Stimulate Creativity
A Lyric or a Poem?
Visionary Songwriters
(These are excerpt from the book “God Songs” written by Paul Baloche and Jimmy and Carol Owens.)

Ray Watson
Songwriting

Dave Byers
Songwriting Tips

The Cardinal Rule of Songwriting:

(Excerpted from God Songs: How to Write and Select Songs for Worship, 

by Jimmy and Carol Owens and Paul Baloche)

Make all the elements work together to enhance the feeling of the message. The idea we’re striving for is to make every melody line, everyvoicing and chord progression, every choice of words appropriate to the feeling of the message; to create the “Perfect Wedding” of words and music that makes the message come alive. When all the elements are working together, each doing what it’s supposed to do, the song has life and warmth and emotion. We don’t just hear it, we experience it.