TRANSCRIPT (there may be some errors): Dear songwriter, if you are someone who is starting to produce your songs from your own home, from your bedroom, and you're struggling to finish your projects, it's because, probably because you aren't asking this one question. And I know this because I didn't know the answer to this question or the question itself for a long time, which led to feeling confused, frustrated, and having no idea where to go with the song.
But then I realized that knowing the question and knowing the answer to that question was important, and it came down to having one clear system. And the question is, what role does this sound, I'm about to add play in the development of this song and the clear system is what I call the production palette.
So with the production palette, essentially there are five main categories and each sound you add can occupy one of. Those categories. So I'll give you an example for my song Real Friends, which I released back in December of 2024. I'll kind of break down the category and then the sound. So the category is main melody, the sound is vocals.
The second category is what I call melody support. The sound for that might be a vocal harmony. Um, for this song, I had like a little bells synth that helped the melody. Violin was also another one, right? So it was more melodic rather than harmonic, and it was more in line with the main melody. The third category is what I call accompaniment support.
So for this song, it was the sound was, the sounds were guitar, violin, and cello. Basically providing that extra layer of accompaniment. Now the main accompaniment, that is the fourth category. That was organ and synthesizer. So that kind of provided the, the chord progression, the bed for everything else to sit upon.
And then the fifth category is rhythm slash bass. So for this song, the sounds were synth bass, electric bass, and electronic drums. So let me give you those five categories going from the bottom up now. So category one from the bottom up, rhythm slash base, category two, main accompaniment, category three, accompaniment support, category four, melody support, category five, main melody.
So this way. There's a clear role and understanding for each new sound that you add, and you can decide how and when you want to introduce each of those sounds over the course of a song rather than your song sounding like a big wall of sound, like minded before I started using this. Cool. Hopefully you found this to be helpful.
Um, if you are a songwriter who's starting to produce from your bedroom and you feel like your songs are taking forever to complete, I want to send you an invitation. And that invitation is to my online community of songwriters and producers called the Songwriter's Vault. And inside the vault, you will get access to even more in-depth resources and you'll be connected.
Most importantly, with the community of fellow songwriters, I'm making it completely free for the first 50 members, so depending on when you listen to this, it may not be free, but it is worth checking. Okay. That is it for today. Thank you so much. Happy writing.
