I’ve always had a fascination with songwriting. I started writing when I was ten. My dad had a two track tape recorder and once I realised that I could record my ideas, songwriting took over my life. 
  
For the next ten years I studied my favourite songwriters. How did they write that? What inspired them to write that? Where on earth did that lyric come from? How does someone come up with a line like that? 
  
I couldn’t see how they did it, but I kept going. Why weren’t my songs as good as theirs? How can I write lines as poetically as Leonard Cohen? Where does David Bowie get his ideas for such interesting songs? 
  
Maybe I’m too emotionally immature to write such great lines I thought. So I kept writing and waited to grow up. 
  
What I really needed at the time was a course like this:

http://musicintuition.net/the-art-of-songwriting--3 
  
Alas, I had to keep finding my way through the dark. 
  
I hit 18 or 20 and was still absorbed with writing but still knew I was missing something. I soaked in real world experiences like sponge and played with reality, twisting it to fire my imagination. 
  
I watched friends who could barely play guitar write the most beautiful, powerful and emotionally moving songs. 
  
I’d sit down and try and write the best lyrics possible but they would never stand up to the ones written by the writers I admired. 
  
One day I stumbled onto a method that changed my life. Suddenly I was writing the songs I’ve always wanted to write. They were pouring out. Not only were they good musically but I was happy with the lyrics too. Metaphors would pour out - something I always had trouble with. Everything fell into place. 
  
I’d gone from being happy with 10% of my songs, to being happy with 80% of them. 
  
It was great. 
  
What I’d discovered was…. 
  
THE ABSOLUTE KEY TO WRITING GREAT SONGS IS TO FIND THE METHOD THAT SUITS YOU. 
  
It’s not about emotional maturity and how much theory you do or don’t know, or how well you play your instrument. 
  
I made this Songwriting Course to help people find the method or methods that work for them. 
  
http://musicintuition.net/the-art-of-songwriting--3 
  
It covers a lot of different ways to generate ideas, come up with lyrics, put chords together and float a melody over the top with very little or no theory knowledge. 
  
It also looks at methods used by great writers such as David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Leonard Cohen to name a few. 
  
If you have any questions or comments feel free to get in touch. 
  
And above all enjoy songwriting! 
  
Andrew McCubbin