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Bryce Vine Says This One Activity Will Make You a Better Songwriter, and It Has NOTHING to Do with Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. These days, for anybody
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Speaker 1: who wants to be a successful artist, in order to
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Speaker 1: get noticed, it really helps to be a talented songwriter too.
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Speaker 1: Right So, Bryce Vine, who broke out with his super
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Speaker 1: catchy teen hit Drew Barrymore, is well respected for his
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Speaker 1: writing chops and offered some tips to American songwriters. He
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Speaker 1: advises you learn an instrument and practice until you're proficient,
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Speaker 1: plus find a writing routine you can stick to. But
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Speaker 1: he strongly recommends you take time to focus on something
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Speaker 1: else as well, which is reading. He says it can
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Speaker 1: be Stephen King novel or history novel, doesn't matter what,
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Speaker 1: just training your brain to take in new information. If
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Speaker 1: you do this constantly, the wheel start turning and you'll
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Speaker 1: come up with new stuff. You're more creative because you've
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Speaker 1: been reading things that weren't your own ideas and sentence
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Speaker 1: structure in a way you wouldn't have thought of previously.
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