This is my personal method developed over 20 years for writing catchy songs that hundreds of thousands of people download for their iPod, use on YouTube videos, films, podcasts, Websites and more...

Hi, thanks taking a moment to stop by, my name is Dan O'Connor. I have a Website called DanoSongs.com where people all over the world download my music and use it royalty free for their videos, games, films, photo galleries, Websites and hundreds of thousands also download just to listen to the songs.

I send out a song every week to subscribers of the site and I need to come up with really catchy tunes fast so I wrote down everything I have learned about writing songs over the past 20 years, in order to have a reference to use. Then I realized that other people might find this helpful so I turned the document into a guide and called it the SongMix Method.

The SongMix Method shows you how to use other song lyrics, themes and structures that are proven to have hit qualities and incorporate that built in massive appeal into your own music. Using this process can give you complete confidence that every time you sit down to write a song it will have the qualities of a hit.

Just to be clear, this is not a formula for writing unoriginal sounding or copycat tunes. However it is a way to make sure your song lyrics fit in with the style of really popular songs and a sure fire method for choosing top chord progressions. It's way easier to do than you might think but 99% of songwriters I know of just don't do it.

You might spend hours writing a song or lyric, throw half your work out, and then maybe 1 out of 10 get a really good audience reaction and you can never really figure out exactly what you did to get it right. Or maybe you never even get to the point of showing your material to people because you don't feel like it's good enough. Frustrating right? Makes you want to give up sometimes right? I know, I've been there.

Well you can learn how to create and use a customized "Proven Rock Lyric Vocabulary" that fits with the exact style you love…hard, pop, classic, alternative, jam, whatever. I believe I have uncovered a virtually unknown songwriting technique that top rock songwriters like Sting, Eddie Vedder, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain and many others use instinctively.

You can use these strategies immediately - this method has opened an entire new world of writing songs and lyrics for many of my students. Find out how to make your audience feel automatically familiar with every one of your songs and recognize them all as tunes that "sound like a hit". And ALSO make them say wow, that you have such a unique sound!

After analyzing hundreds of songs I finally came to completely understand the "certain something" that makes songs from Pearl Jam, Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and other all time great rock acts become hits every time. They obviously knew something I didn't - and I set out to figure it out! It seems like natural talent, but I applied a bit of science to it and came up with some interesting findings in this book.

...and incredibly, this method can be applied to any style of music!

This is not about becoming a famous overnight star and coming up with one hit wonders. It is about learning to really connect with people through music and words, in a way that is familiar, comfortable and yet energizing as well as exciting for them. On the flip side, do you know that you could unintentionally be turning off your audience with your songs? Well, I believe I know how and why now.

I really wanted to be totally sure of every one of my songs and lyrics every time I showed them to my band, audience, friends, family, press, producers, record companies, etc. That's why I created a process I could follow instead of just writing with no real direction. Now I have more confidence in every performance and every aspect of my music career...especially with the huge growth of users visiting my Website DanoSongs.com.

1. The easy 3 step process for getting listened to by major labels, producers, and everyone else in the business.

In other words a very simple way for YOUR CD to go from being "unsolicited" to being "solicited" using their own secret instructions.

2. Picasso's way to become a great rock artist.

3. 6 Rules for coming up with a hit melody.

4. The golden rule of (not) arranging a song.

5. How top songwriters knowingly and unintentionally use loopholes in the copyright law to create songs that "sound like a hit" before the song ever gets on the radio!

6. THE universal rock song radio-friendly structure.

7. Ultimate tip: The single most important thing you can do in order to easily establish a long-term ongoing relationship with fans and industry contacts.

The typical songwriting method that most people use:

Pen + pad + you own thoughts =

½ or more songs thrown away
Limited audience interest
Mediocre songs
Diminished confidence and motivation
Maybe 1 in 10 songs become popular with fans (you get lucky)
Sound familiar?

Here are the results of the "1 Hour Hit Songwriting Method":

Only 1/5 of songs trashed
Constant positive audience reaction
Songs that feel great to play
Tunes you really think could possibly be on the charts
Lots more motivation and confidence onstage and in life
EVERY song becomes popular with different fans for different reasons
You have that "certain something" people notice

Just spent an hour working through the first part of the book last night. Two words:

THANKS! and AWESOME!

I haven't enjoyed a book like this since reading Kenny Rogers' "Making it in the Music Business" years ago. It's easy to follow and very practical.

I have written a LOT of songs...some have had commercial success...some I know are destined for success...but, your book is really a blessing...it's helping me bring what I thought was just a long slump to a quick end.

Sincerely,

Michael
www.myspace.com/michaelturner
(Currently looking for a singing gig)

No matter what stage you are in as a songwriter, I think this method offers a truly new spin on an ancient art form.

It doesn't take allot of practice. You don't need to master boring music theory skills and study for years. These are just a few simple tools and techniques that help you to:

 Discover the critical lyrical and melodic and choices you can make to draw in listeners within seconds of hearing a song.

 Understand that the right song structure is vital to success. I have never read another songwriting book that has done a real life analysis of this - so I did it myself by studying every one of the top 500 rock songs of all time and put my results in this material.

 Immediately tap into a potential music fan's past experiences to position yourself in their mind as "having that sound".

 Get past the thinking that a perfect song just happens naturally and learn to be in control of how tunes turn out.

 Turn around a creative block, learn to write a song for the first time, or just add these tools to the concepts you already work with.

 See how learning to work smart and not hard applies to songwriting and making money in music too.

I have read dozens of those 300 page music business books with long contracts and explanations of royalty rates and sad tales of the music industry in decline. None of these books actually looks at what has been successful and breaks down those factors into an easy to repeat method like I have tried to do in the SongMix Method.

What this all really comes down to is an opportunity to save precious time that I wish I had 20 years ago. I went to a university for music business and music theory, but it was full of endless busy-work that gets you nowhere in the real world.

So I sorted through all the nonsense - so you don't have to! This book "gets down to business" and specifically shows you the only songwriting tips and methods that I have found to really matter.

I feel like the songs "write themselves" naturally now...

 Learn how to let rhymes and melodies naturally fall into place by setting up a proven tested framework for your song to begin with.

 There is one tip in the book that will never have you brainstorming all day for the perfect chorus and title again.

 Do you think that awesome ideas for songs and lyrics need to "suddenly hit you" to be really inspired and good? Well, don't be at the mercy of your subconscious for motivation anymore with these techniques.

 See why you don't even have to be confident to be a great songwriter. But...you do need to write hit songs in order to be confident in the music business since that is what drives the industry.

 Every other book in the world will tell you how to put the right press package and demo together, but I can show you the three steps you can start today, right now, to get your name in front of any music industry person you want to.

This does not even require a press kit! (In fact, they would rather not have the press kit).

 "Networking" to get your songs heard is an outdated term that is not practical for most everyone in the world, and only really applies if you live in Nashville nowadays. Learn the really basic new concept anyone can do that will get you further, faster than networking.

So that's the story. I've outlined a method for writing songs and lyrics that has radically changed the way many of my students and I write songs. I developed this process on my own, and before I used it nobody really quite "got" my music.

I documented the process for you to use in the SongMix Method!

I did not learn this from anyone, or any book and I have put it together for you to check out here. Now it's up to you to see what you think.

All the best with your music!

Peace,

Dan-O

Hit Rock eBooks
DanoSongs.com
dano@danosongs.com

P.S. When you order The SongMix Method: "How to Write a Hit Rock Song in 1 Hour" I am available by email anytime you have questions or comments.

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