Essential songwriting skills include learning to compose rhythms, chord progressions, melodies, lyrics and develop a song structure. Crafting a good song will require you to learn basic song arrangement, including how to compose a verse, chorus, bridge, and intro and outro for a song.
One of the best ways to start out learning songwriting is by using a song as a reference track, and analyzing the chord progressions, rhythms and song structure (verse, chorus, bridge, etc). Try to write a lot of songs and/or beats, and eventually, you’ll write some good ones. To learn more about songwriting, check out this guide. If you’d like to learn more the basics of music composition, our beginner’s guide to composing music is a helpful resource.
