Use youtube as an amazing resource for inspiration. I am going to give you an example from the songwriters point of view. I´ll let Josh Groban and the song "Don´t give up, you are loved" help me with this task.

Ok, here we go :-),

sometimes life is just beautiful.

Right now I am listening to this song, press play and let´s go:

"Don´t give up, you are loved" with Josh Groban

When I was listening to this song and writing in my blog. It just hit me, what a great idea to use youtube.com as an inspirational tool for songwriting.

It´s a remarkable place, you can find the most beautiful songs in the world and instantly hear them. Of course this isn´t all new to me, but I just have to say: It´s AMAZING :-)

I am well aware of the downside with this kind of service, when there´s something good, and also free of charge, there´s often a downside.

I won´t talk about that downside here. I will focus on the positive thing´s, the amazing things and how it might help you as a songwriter.

I am a creative person with a long musical background, always looking for inspiration to strike and if it doesn´t show up. Well, I have to find it, right?

like this:

• listen to Josh Groban - “Don´t give up. you are loved”
• when my son call my name and want to have me close
• some sad memories from the past

• standing infront of an audience, singing from the bottom of my heart.
• watching “The green mile” with Tom Hanks

You can write more than five if you like. I just want to show you an important tool to use in the world of creativity.

When you need to find a certain emotion, go look for that episode in your life that reminds you of the feeling you are after, or try to remember your favorite movie. You can even watch that movie again, or listen to music that put you in a state of inspiration.

I am shure you have a couple of favorite artists or singers or instrumentalists that make your heart warm every time you hear them, right?

Go find them on youtube, create a fastlink to them and have them in your browser as an inspirational tool whenever you need them.

It would actually be very fun if you dared to share that with us and place a comment about your favorite source of inspiration.I´d love to read about that.

Ok, let´s make a smal stop at Josh Groban and the song: “Don´t give up, you are loved”.

We are going to make a mini-analysis of this piece. You are listening to it, right?

1. Short intro with a very tasteful modern arrangement

^{please notice that the arrangement of a song is often very important}

^{I´m going to talk about that in articles to come.}

2. The “verse” actually starts with something that remind us of the lyrics in the refrain. It´s in a perfect pitch for, in this case, Josh Groban.

3. The music is getting louder, we are going into the “break” zone :-). You get the feeling that something is going to happen.

4. A rather soft refrain starts

5. The refrain have a very creative way of ending, some high pitched notes

6. We are in verse number two, almost without knowing what happened :-), the arrangement is stronger and the drums is starting for real, which is giving the song a lovely feeling of “greatness”, forward motion and presence.

The words of “Don´t give up...” is repeated in versenumber two.

7. The “break” and refrain number two is just a repetition, but that doesn´t matter cause the melody and the voice of Josh creates magic. No problem hearing that again an again....

8. The ending of the song is starting, with repetitions, high pitched notes, Josh singing stronger, and getting answers from a smal choir.

9. fade out

Ok, bottom line is: SIMPLICITY

It´s one very strong verse and one very strong refrain sung by one of the best male singers in the world....

That´s a good lesson to learn, simplicity works, if the pieces are good enough, and work well together.

One more piece in this puzzle is a smart way to arrange this song, starting in smal scale, with a modern sound, building and building, giving the impression that all the parts are new.

I´d love to talk about arrangements in articles to come.