3 Minutes & The Truth: How Many Songs You Write

The CLIMB Show by Brent Baxter, Team SWPro on April 07, 2023

Are music industry professionals impressed by how many songs you've written? Or by how fast you can write a song? Here's the truth, in just around 3 minutes. Listen up!



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TRANSCRIPT:

Today, I'm revealing the truth about excuses. We all got them, what do we do with them?

Here's the deal. There are SO many excuses for why you should NOT become a pro songwriter. For why you haven't made it yet. For why you won't ever make it. We all have excuses.

Thing is, you can choose one of two options. You can choose excuses, or you can choose progress. You can't have excuses and progress at the same time. You have to choose ONE, right? You have to break up with your excuses if you want to have progress.

Here's the deal. I've been blessed to get cuts and be around the music business for a while now. When I started off, I had a buffet of excuses. I grew up in Arkansas. I didn't grow up in Tennessee. I didn't grow up in Nashville. I didn't know anybody in the music business. My parents weren't in the business. And I had to work for a living. I couldn't just sit back and do music full time right after college. I had to go get a job. And I was stuck in a cubicle in Little Rock, Arkansas, where there wasn't much of the music scene, and there weren't many songwriters around or a good way to find them. (This was before Facebook groups and all that.)

And recording was expensive. We had to go to the studio. What else? Oh, I'm a lyricist. I don't write melodies. You do NOT want me writing the melody for your song. And being a lyricist, I had to find co writers. There weren't many co writers around. I didn't know any hit writers.

All these excuses, right? A buffet of excuses. But you can't let that stop you. We all have excuses. You have as many excuses as you want. But the thing is... the people that make it? They don't make it because they DON'T have excuses. They make it IN SPITE of their excuses. They put their excuses away, and they go and they do the work. And step by step. They start building a career.

The thing is, nobody will believe in you and your songs... until they finally do. Then slowly, if you keep at it and you keep getting better and you learn the business, the art, the craft of songwriting, then slowly people going to start paying attention. And eventually they won't be able to STOP paying attention.

And that's what we have to do. You have to put your excuses aside. Because if you keep making excuses, that's all you're going to make. You're not going to make records. You're not going to make a living as a songwriter. You're going to make excuses. So, you can make excuses or progress, but you can't make both.

This has been 3 Minutes & The Truth.

God bless,

Brent

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Who is Brent Baxter?
Brent is an award-winning songwriter with songs recorded by Alan Jackson (the top 5 Country hit "Monday Morning Church"), Randy Travis, Lady A, Joe Nichols, Ray Stevens, Steve Cropper, Andy Griggs, Buddy Jewell, Lonestar, Gord Bamford (the #1 hit and CCMA Single Of The Year "When Your Lips Are So Close"), The Sound (the #1 hit and Dove-nominated Southern Gospel Song Of The Year "Can I Get A Witness"), Wilburn & Wilburn (#1 hit "Hallelujah Homecoming"), The LeFevre Quartet and more!