My Songwriting Process

In this video I cover in brief my songwriting process from where to start, the tools I use, what inspires me, and how I deal with writers block.
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[@PrakharSrivastav]

Very useful! Would love to see more tutorials on how you approach synth, creating sounds with it and how it inspires your song writing process.

[@hellbreedstudio666]

We live in an amazing time to be a musician. With all the plugins available today there's no more excuse for bad guitar sounds or drums. But indeed people have no idea how much time and effort goes into creating a song and working towards a nice end product. Nice vid, thanks.

[@jabberwocky1969]

Thanks Nicole.

[@TaylorDanley]

It's kind of crazy how little actually playing guitar has to do with my process as well. Thanks for sharing your process!

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Right?! I used to only play guitar and felt so limited and also got impatient waiting for other people to send me their parts. Feels very freeing to be self sufficient enough to produce almost all elements of a song to keep the writing flow.

[@Timjohnrob]

Maybe show us how you would write vertically , just going through some of the processes and plugins and how you work with em? Helpful video, thanks.

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Hey! I’ll keep this in mind for a future video to go more in depth with that. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@toontrack]

Awesome!

[@NicolePapastavrou]

💪🏽💪🏽

[@sciomancy6]

Very informative! And to the point. Keep up the great work 👽👽👽

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Thanks bud!!! Trying 😊

[@zoidasteire]

Thanks. I'm a guitar player too but, I aint got patience to do all of that process so, I wont go far in these days... Thanks again Nicole.

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Yes it can be time consuming and frustrating at times, but worth it I promise! :)

[@ReinkeEric]

I love seeing other Cubase Pro users!! Great vid! New subscriber!!

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Yay for Cubase!

[@RotterStudios]

I have a very similar workflow. It's so much fun. I do this on my own. How did you start getting clients?

[@GUOMENTAREVIEWS]

I'm using Reaper because I'm super smart

[@NicolePapastavrou]

That’s great! Any DAW is great :) the point is you’re recording music.

[@callethomer]

Yep. Opening a new session is fucking dreadful sometimes 😁

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Definitely overwhelming haha !

[@Joseph-no9yr]

Killing it!

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Thanks bud!! :)

[@t0ko]

i often write drum tracks first and jam along to them on guitar, but this is a good perspective on how you write music

[@NicolePapastavrou]

That’s a great way to do it too! Sometimes my drummer sends me full songs on drums and I actually find it pretty easy to pump out riffs to a bunch of drums that are already written. I still struggle programming drums but slowly getting better. :)

[@brianmathiason29]

I really like what you said about writing vertically!!! Too often I write out the entire guitar part or bass part horizontally and don't leave a lot of room to change things up. Writing vertically makes much more sense to be able to add new parts and spice things up. Thank you!!!!

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Thanks for watching!! :) Yeah it’s always good to check yourself by not getting too far ahead before adding more elements

[@tmysty]

Awesome, Thanks!!

[@demondrive147]

4:36 this is a very good tip, thank u! Even when you're doing your recreational activity, your brain tryes to come with a musical solution to the puzzle you're building in the subconscious. Sometimes good idea can strike "out of nowhere", so it's good to write it down using technique called mumbling to a dictaphone app. haha Works every time!
Bonus: Usually I try to write in a structure which has meaning even if you listen just to rithm guitars alone, but lately I found a way to link two very different parts of the song through background melody ... and in this moment I was like ..
Eureka!!
Now the puzzle makes sense!

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Great tip and thank you for watching!

[@Twobarpsi]

You are a very high level player and composer!! 🤘🤘🤘

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Still learning but thank you! :)

[@metalpunk9519]

Hey Nicole most impressive set up👏a long way from the 80`s just plug in & go🤘loved the climbing clips👀noodling & classical music go hand in hand for inspiration! even better with a Adrian Smith Jackson 😆👌⛓🎩

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Thanks for watching!

[@metalpunk9519]

🙏🤘@@NicolePapastavrou

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[@thodoris3790]

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[@Mcsteveberry]

i like what i see 👍and its not the music

[@JackSon-cs5vk]

thanks you da bomb

[@NicolePapastavrou]

Thanks for watching!