Why Write Your Own Songs On Guitar?

We break down the 5 reasons you should start writing your own songs as a guitarist and the benefits.

If you’ve never written your own chord progressions are you really improving on guitar? Leigh Fuge poses these questions and talks about the benefits of writing your own songs on guitar, how it can help put music theory into practice and how it leads to different styles of playing you didn't know you could play!

In this guitar lesson for songwriters, we learn how strummed, arpeggiated and chordal embellishments can completely change the feel of a song, how to access your creative brain and how writing your own songs on guitar can be a lot of fun.

We also get insight into how to create chord progressions, how to rearrange chord progressions and how to develop your lead guitar phrasing too! Highly recommended viewing for songwriters who want to improve their playing style and songwriting skills.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
1:00 Reason #1 - Music theory into practice
2:54 Changing chord progressions
3:50 Music theory speeds up the process of songwriting
4:15 Reason #2 - Access your creative brain - make your own decisions on chord choices & rhythm
5:24 3 Chords - Strummed, arpeggiated & chordal embellishments
7:20 Reason #3 - Write songs to connect with people
8:46 Reason #4 Improve your sense of melody
10:21 BONUS - Develop lead guitar phrasing
10:58 Reason #5 - Fun playing the guitar!
12:17 Outro - 5 reasons why you should start writing your own songs

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