I don't think you need to learn an instrument to write a song.
If you can hear melody in your head that's all the music you need.
Chords will follow the melody.

If you can sing in key and without being pitchy you already have an instrument. Your voice.

As for meter. If you can tap your foot and count to four you have your meter maker built in. You just need to learn how masculine and feminine rhymes work an how the syllables are stressed.
Learn "Mary Had a Little Lamb", Tap your foot, and count. That's meter in it's simplest form.

Now to write a commercial song you need one more thing. A Producer that can make the music to fit the genre you want the song performed in.

Last edited by Bill Robinson; 12/11/10 01:43 PM.
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