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Your song turned out really well! I tried writing an recording a song in fifteen minutes a year or two ago. I re-recorded it a while later and I think it's one of my favorite songs I've made. I should try doing this again.

Joe, I've been songwriting for decades and I've always said some of my best songs were written in 15 minutes. Many that took months lost that something special that was there in the beginning and I could never recapture. Which is why the discipline of recording even the earliest songwriting sessions of a song is so important. Sometimes you can capture "on tape" that special something that would otherwise be lost forever. This was a very good video.

That melody at 2:30 has potential. Great vid 😊

Joe - thank you for your work, you always make so many complex issues into simple solutions. Super talented.

Good stuff. Getting going is definitely the hardest part of most things.

A gentleman from my hometown, Chris Gelbuda, is currently a staff songwriter at Big Yellow Dog Music in Nashville. Prior to moving out there, he had a "Song a Day" project going on that I'm sure helped land the gig. 15 minutes would be tough, though!

Thank you Joe! The challenges you post here are inspiring

It was fun to watch your process and this was a good refresher for me. I spent 15-20 minutes working on a song idea this morning that's been floating around and made some significant progress. Cheers!

I have been trying to get songs together for ages. This has inspired me to have a go using your method. That has been an eye-opener for me as are most of the videos on recording etc. Thank you Joe, I always look forward to your videos, one day I am sure I will join one of your courses.

Makes sense. I always gegt disracted - like when a new Joe Gilder video appears in my feed! 😀

That was pretty cool Joe. My biggest take away was to get a powerful chorus sorted first. I have been trying for a little while to get the technique right. I build a progression on guitar then write lyrics to the verses. I find when it comes to choruses I am falling flat, but that was a simple and powerful, repeatable chorus you wrote there. That's the part a listener will remember first I think. The rest will come in subsequent listens. A valuable lesson, thanks Joe

thanks for showing us out can be done. focused attention and making space in our daily lives can bring forth some really good moments. thank you for sharing!!

joe you fowarded most of the time...wish it was uncut so we be with you there in your creative space as you scratch lyrics and music ideas...otherwise am your number one fun...youve been my inspiration in my journey of music production

Well done, Joe!

This is so good. I would like to see this as a kind of series where you make a song in 15 or 20 minutes and then record it and mix it and put it out there. That would be so good. And maybe we all can participate in a challenge like that (put a deadline on that).

Such an intriguing challenge! Will give it a shot tomorrow.

Really nice song - especially the melody, which I thought was beautiful!

that's a very beautiful song

It doesn't seem like it's that difficult to write a song in 15 minutes. Beyonce does it all the time. And all it takes is having a room full of 28 people who all resort to the same chord structure and time signature over and over again, ad nauseum.

Go Joe.

holy crap Joe, incredible vigor & vulnerability. I can basically do this, but I’ve ended up with too many songs (2verses, chorus, bridge) That I don’t honestly like. So, Video Request: Write A Song You’d Actually Listen To In 1/2Hr?

amazing work 💪

If we wanna see the tempo we just follow Joe's swaying. 😁 Very nice song from 15 minutes

I like your head voice tones :)

Nice bro!! Your voice is so smooth man. I could listen all day!Id love to come down and write with you sometime!!Im only 2 hrs away!

这是一首好歌

Nice idea Joe. I might not be the first to tell you but your vocal reminds me on Thom Yorke. Great!

there was a Stewart copeland interview on the making of the PS1 Spyro soundtrack... he wrote the skeleton of a piece in less than ten minutes with just a keyboard and virtual instruments. and that was the year ~199x. of course the style of the song was in his wheelhouse (the I - IV chords in mixolydian with frantic drums)... but he himself said that it's possible to keep making music fast.

Please call the song “turn the page” lol that worked out pretty well

Joe, your voice is better than most signed major label artists.

This worked fantastically! I'm on hour number three and I think I'm on the verge of something!

Once upon a time a song like this would go to top 10 on the charts…

hey man , i would liketo hear it recorded

This bro is a Coach ❤ 💪🖊️📜

Also like @Capt-Cran comment I am suspicious of “music by the clock”. I believe I understand your good intention to push everyone to be creative and to not procrastinate. But, at least for me, as just a passioned amateur, I prefer to follow my instincts. Sometimes I do a song (that pleases me) in one shot, maybe even in less than 15 minutes. But most of the times I take much much longer, namely the lyrics and the complete arrangement. Each music for me is like a dating period, you have to let it breathe, grow and have its own life.

hey Joe, I've watched your older video about mixer in home studio. Maybe you you know if it's possible to use StudioLive 16.0.2 can be used as DAW controller?

I think it is a beautiful song….

Have you considered putting your new song on Spotify, Joe?

For a moment there, listening to that strum, I thought you were going to end up with "Good 'ol Boys."

here's what you need to right decent music: you have to GO somewhere and DO something and then have a POINT OF VIEW about those occurrences Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that there are only two stories: a journey begins and a stranger comes to town now, tell me a story

Nice. One song in a 15 minutes :-) That means you can compose full album material in a 2,5 hour :-) I've heard one of the famous opera composers had written a libretto to his opera 12 hours before its premiere. That was the pressure. 🙂

I'd call these brainstorming sessions, no more. And while they can be extremely valuable, today's obsession with hacking the algorithm by producing non-stop content is severely compromising the quality of music across the board. Song lengths are often 2-2.5 mins now because one can only listen to a single hook repeated ad nausem for so long. And while admittedly, I write songs by coming up with chord progressions on the piano, this is merely the template from which a song evolves. By the same token, strumming some chords on a guitar is not a "song" either. That said, that piece was very listenable, Joe. Talented bastard.

What if you don't play an instrument?

I see you like racing games

Challenges are fun. If your gf is ever annoyed with you writing, ask her to give you 20 words… tell her to go call a friend for an hour, and you’ll have a song ready. Works every time…good or bad!

I used to live next door to a guy whose band sold over 30 million albums. He'd often tell me that songs just came to him in his sleep and that they just wrote themselves. When I quizzed him further, he admitted that the actual fleshing out of the arrangement and nailing down the lyrics, etc. actually took weeks. Moral of the story? An idea is not a song 🤷‍♂

Joe "lennon" killed this one. I'm 26 and my smoker voice can't go in those high notes even if used helium gas

heres another take... make a song with only CHORDS you never used (or at least invertions!)

Joe, I love your content and learn a lot. But, no offence, I don't get why having that nice and round baritone voice you sing in that squeezed small, strangled and tight little voice...Big hug.

Joe I'm a big fan!! ... this not a complaint because I so much appreciate your videos and shares, but I have to say, the overall concept of this video is what music and song writing is not about IMHO ... I am a song writer, and I have often loathed the fact that people come to work in Nashville in the mornings ... jump into a room with co-writers to try to write a hit (I'm not saying many are making big money doing just that) ... a song should come from within ... that's why I can't hardly even listen to today's country ... most of the tunes are not from within IMHO ... they are written with "MARKETING and SALES" as their primary motive ... my friend ... I don't call that art .... that is why the great songs sustain because the flow from true desire to share and express ... I understand you were demonstrating that a song could be written in a short period of time, but I would never want to noose my creativity to such criteria ... I have written songs in "very" short periods of time because they came naturally ... other times ... songs have often taken many hours to get them to their right place ... am I a famous writer ... no ... but you might be surprised how many CDs of my music has sold over the years ... at 62 ... my music has nothing to do with whether I make money or sales ... I write a song to share something that means something to me and hoping others may relate to the same .... didn't mean to wax so philosophical in my response ... but I believe music needs to be real ... let it come when and if it comes ... no constraints ... I never sit down to write a song ... ever ... I let the song come to me ... let the real emotion and story of the music and/or words flow free ... AND ... again, I'm one of your biggest fans and appreciate you dearly ... believe this or not ... one of my FAVORITE songs (and I mean this) is your tune "All in my Head" ... I listen to it often and repeatedly .... doesn't that song mean something special as you were writing it and sharing it? ... if you wrote that song in 15 minutes .... please don't tell me ... I think it would crash my love of it ... HA ... joking ... but seriously ... it is a GREAT tune ... you are Top Shelf ... keep the content coming ... my insignificant rant is now over!! .... until!! (going to listen to "All in my Head" right now!!)

Music inspired by scripture and the Holy Spirit is the most powerful.

If you don't do it, you'll NEVER do it! Great advice Joe.

Good song. Your voice sounds similar to that of Chris Daughtry's.