How To Write a Song In Under 5 Minutes 

**proceeds to create fucking masterpiece unintentionally**

Today I came up with such a cool chord progression but the more I played it, the more it sounded familiar until I realised I just accidentally taught myself riot van by arctic monkeys purely from subconscious memory when I couldn’t teach myself it by ear

I have the most amazing chorus in my head now. The song would be called "Purple Summer." Thanks for this video, it's super helpful and encouraging actually.

Title: How to write a song in 5 minutes Video: **20 minutes long**

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As tired as the “scrambled eggs” story is, it should be mentioned in any beginner songwriting vid, and you kept it concise, as it should be. Kudos!

can you do a video about actually recording the song too, maybe some pro tool tips, good programs for beginners and how to set everything up

hey Mike, I remember writing a little song I wrote quite a few years back, I read a friends poetry and got inspired. Three chords with a F in the chorus. that song about remembering the past and old friends and what we did. that was a five minute composition I was quite proud. last week I put another verse at the end. it only took 29 years to finish.

“Scrambled Eggs” by the Beatles Scrambled eggs My appetite seemed so far away But now it looks as though it’s here to stay Oh I want to eat Scrambled eggs

My method to writing music: Choose a key, count 1-4-5, pick a strumming pattern, sing one of my of unfinished lyrics I wrote for music.

I've spent the last two weeks trying to write just a chorus to finish a song. This video came just at the right time.

That was really good, thank you. I really did imagine someone singing and somehow I just felt a song that I really love even though it doesn't exist.

Nice tutorial. One thing to add is maybe not commit to a strum rhythm too early but rather just Strum once per bar and allowing the melody to dictate the strong rhythm instead of the other way around. This allows for more flexibility.

you just wrote a green day song

This is gonna help me and my band so much. We've been struggling to write music for so long now. Thank you in advance!

Your the best! Always making the most sense!

I’m four minutes into this video and already feel inspired. I’m tremendously lyrically inclined. My problem is the beats! Thank you so much

Some real straight to the point teaching. Thanks a ton for actually being helpful. I really enjoyed the point about transitioning, not going from the same note to the same note, but instead ending on another to really give a payoff when moving into the chorus.

...or you could do it like most pop music today even quicker by creating Chorus and repeat 5 times. It tends to appeal to the masses with a low attention span.

Thanks Keanu.

Great video! I've been wanting to dig more into more song structure, and your videos are always awesome. You have a positive personality. Also digging the heart in the back! ♥️😊

This guy is literally the best teacher ever

Nicely done. Thanks for taking the time to make songwriting accessible.

wow, really great video. ive never thought of starting out simple and adding stuff, to use your words ive always tried to write a masterpiece right away. excited to try this later

Thank you so much! Was searching for these kind of videos since I started playing guitar

This is a great video, thanks for making the process so clear.

This is the first ever song-writing video I am watching. And he explained it all so well! Hope to make to good songs in the future!

Great video as always buddy

Thanks for the video! You're a really chill and nice dude as well, makes the video's very pleasant to watch :)

Nice, sensical, good connection. Thanks.

This video helped me soooo much you can't even imagine! Being able to write songs has been my dream for the past year and I took notes from everything you said. Thank you so much!

Thank U Man, that timing. I was literally having trouble with this a couple mins ago. Also Should def consider doing habits of Johnny Marr.

I just kept hearing the melody for "Save Tonight" while you were playing and couldn't ever think of my own. Guess I'm not a songwriter lmao

Great music education. This is a common formula for many of the world's greatest songs. However, if you listen to the likes Frank Zappa, then no specific song writing formula will apply. Anyhow, much gratitude for the vid.

I wanted to tell you that this video, out of all your work i have watched so far, this one sold me on your paid courses. Looking forward to learning more with you.

This helped me a lot. Thanks Mike!

This is so helpful; you’re really good at explaining! I subbed ❤️

I really enjoyed the effort you put into this video. It inspired me to come up with my own song. No lyrics yet. But I'm getting there

Very inspiring and helpful video! I’m a total newbie so this is a big help! Thank you very much.

you re so amazing man.we all thank you for you re beautiful work

Great tutorial!!!. I am not sure if anyone already mentioned this, but trying different rhythms can almost give you a feel for the type of song you want to sing. So if your stuck on something that you sort of already have some words for, try different rhythms. Or if you can't come up with words, try different rhythms anyway, you would be surprised at how you start to hear a song and what should be said just by playing different rhythms and chords of course.....I was told once to relate minor chords to almost like a crying chord and major are more happy or aggressive.

Great job, I get it and I’m inspired.... The presentation was clear and well explained. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. 🎸🤘

I really like that guitar sounds so good

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Great lesson. Very helpful!

Rly inspiring Keep it up man👍👍

I love ur explaining bro!!!

Great video... very useful stuff. I had a song writing teacher some years ago that taught me the same stuff (plus more... You should keep going as a series). Talking gibberish is called free association ( as is clearing your mind and writting for 5 minutes). I found a lot of the stuff I sang actually made sense.... keep up the awsome content.... cheers.

had such a hard time finding a good tutorial for this. this was prfect

This is exactly what i was looking for!! THANKYOU

Hey man... that was great!!! I've always been a pretty decent guitar player that just wants to shred solos!! But recently I've been more interested in telling my own story vocally. Turns out that shits hard!!!! So I literally Googled "how to compose a song"... and wound up watching your video. Very very helpful and motivating. Just wanted to say thank you!!!!

This was cool! Thanks for sharing.

Black Sabbaths Paranoid was written in 5 minutes or should I say improvised in 5 minutes

I always say that paw, you are a great advice about how to become a song writer. I am happy for that. God blessed you and your family.

I've been looking for information to improve my songwriting and tell me in a way I can understand and you were able to do that for me. A very good use of my time I can recommend. Thank you.

I am a composer too but i’m struggling how to make a melody and to find a chords that’s suit to the song i want to make but i see this video and I watch it. Now it’s gives me a idea how to find a melody and chords.. Thanks a lot 🤗💕

The awesome moment sir, I understood it now. Truly made sense. Thank you for the video.

That video really really helped me out man thanks!

Extremely useful for me, thanks a lot for this.

This is pretty much the exact structure how I wrote a looot of my songs ^^ It just works well most of the time

This is super, thank you! Next it would be really cool to see how you arranged it for the backing track!

Every time I try I end up with an already written song.

Thank you, this has really helped!! ✌️☺️

This is really good. Thank you!

THANK YOU BROTHA! I NEEDED THAT VIDEO

Great content thanks. Keep up the great work.

This was super helpful. Thank you

This is beautiful Man thank you.

Solid video! Very helpful. My problem is that I listen to a lot of prog and tech death. It tries to come out in my playing and writing, but I lack the knowledge and skill to make it work. Also lack the dedication to practice enough to gitgud. This video is reminding me to start simple first; then zazz it up later.

this helps so much thank you

finally. Thisis the video I needed. Im going to try to do this tomorrow.

one of my fav bands is the Melvins and while playing around with a drop A tuning and trying to make equally beefy riffs I started off with such a cool riff...and then i realized it was just Boris, by the Melvins

This is literally the best tutorial for writing songs ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great clip. Thanks.

I going to use this very helpful thanks..🙏🙏🙏🙏

thank you Sir. What a great tutorial!

Watching you transition so easily from F to C is graceful. That's been my biggest hurdle is having smooth transitions to and from F.

Dude you are doing good . Thanks for the inspiration

"The crowd's going to want that next chord but you're not going to give it to them" LOL! That's so awesome. This is a very helpful video! Thank you!

Thumbs Up for the books you mentioned. The Artists Way is such a great book. Still in week 6. :-) Checking the others out. Great video lesson. I am trying to make some guitar instrumental songs and this tutorial helped me out. Thanks.

What a great video, thank you much

Having the voice of the favorite singer in your head while you write is genius!

Thx for this video, I have been wanting to make my own song, I did once before but I didng have music, but now I'm going to attend a new one thx hope everyone's day is well🌺🐺

Good advice!!

So amazing. Way of writing lyrics

Awesome way, thanks a lot.

Awesome, thanks

Great ideas here!

Funny that you mention the gibberish, random word thing. The first song I ever wrote I used "twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky" cause it fit perfectly into the verse phrasing, and then manipulated it little by little til I had my vocal melody for the song. This is a great technique.

l love your create buddy thanks for idea

Haha what a coincidence. The song I started writing is Am F C G. I’m just kind of tired as heck from the day so I’m seeing what I can learn from people with more experience than myself on RU-vid. All you RU-vidr guitarists are legends to many no doubt!

Helpful!

THANK YOU DUDE!

Very helpful. Thank you. I've got poems happening ... but would like to write songs ..

Awesome!

this was really helpful. i get the concept of knocking out the skeletal framework of a song in five minutes

great stuff

Keep it up!

Thank You 🙏🏻

thank you!!! having a hard time to make my first song over here.. i’m so frustrated