That's certainly an awful lot. And even if only a couple are good, that's still impressive.
Dolly Parton wrote the two songs that made her career on the same afternoon: "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You." A very large portion of her 60+ year career is a result of those two songs.
A number of other songwriters have told stories of how they were struggling to write, and then something happened in their lives - days, weeks, months, or even years after not being able to write anything - and suddenly ideas poured out of them and became some of their best-known work.
Being creative is very often NOT a M-F 8am-5pm kind of job - but you still have to work that hard much of the time, even if you get nothing out of it directly, because that's what will hone your skills and brain for those days when ideas just come pouring out.
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`It doesn't really matter how many songs you write, it only matters if you can make good songs. You can fill books with songs that suck and you'd still be unskilled.
Depends. A lot of rap and pop songs need 5 songwriters or more to write a song that could have been written in 5 minutes, so in that context, yes it is good.
No. They probably are not good. Quality of quantity
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good songs or bad songs?
I could write a 100 bad songs in half a day... There was a day back in the mid to late `80's where I wrote about 26 songs in one day. I forget what the record was but I DO recall writing quite a few in one day. I know I've got well over 100 songs, so far.
Kinda depends entirely on how good they are.
Is that just the lyrics though or full composition?
I have never written music for myself really so I don't know. But it sounds impressive
Depends on if you are just writing new melody lines for the same chord structures, or completely new songs.
It's incredible for an EXPERIENCED songwriter, let alone a newbie.
So you wrote the melodic lines, the cord progressions, the rhythmic elements.. and everything in one day?
Songs like Ralph Vaughn Williams or Wesley Willis?
Impressive if they are good
Absolutely. In 15 years I wrote maybe 10.
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I just posted a MyTake about this.
That sounds amazing
Yes. But are they any good?
You are showing off. That's a red flag
it is
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