Comments on: 13 Ways To Access More Songwriting Creativity http://tonyconniff.com/13-ways-to-ask-what-if-and-access-more-songwriting-creativity/ Songwriter, Producer, and Coach, based in New York City. Sat, 12 Sep 2015 06:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tony Conniff http://tonyconniff.com/13-ways-to-ask-what-if-and-access-more-songwriting-creativity/#comment-6810 Sat, 12 Sep 2015 06:32:42 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2452#comment-6810 In reply to sarah.

Sarah,
Thanks for reading and writing!
TC

]]> By: Tony Conniff http://tonyconniff.com/13-ways-to-ask-what-if-and-access-more-songwriting-creativity/#comment-6809 Sat, 12 Sep 2015 06:32:06 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2452#comment-6809 In reply to Ruth Greenwood.

That’s great, Ruth; so true! Volunteer sentences…
Thanks,
Tony

]]> By: sarah http://tonyconniff.com/13-ways-to-ask-what-if-and-access-more-songwriting-creativity/#comment-6808 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:55:44 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2452#comment-6808 thank you for THIS!

]]> By: Ruth Greenwood http://tonyconniff.com/13-ways-to-ask-what-if-and-access-more-songwriting-creativity/#comment-6807 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:17:06 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2452#comment-6807 Thank you for this wonderful list of possibilities! I also love the twin brother of “what if?”…”What else?” What else could this chord be? What else might this title mean? Author and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg writes about avoiding “volunteer sentences” …those lines that come easily (and that we pass off as inspiration), when instead they are often cliche-filled, vague, or, in a song, done to serve an easy rhyme instead of.meaning AND sound AND rhyme. Because volunteer lines FEEL good to write…they flow out…we assume they will delight the hearer. But in truth we may just have settled instead of being willing to summon up more original and powerful alternatives (I’m guilty of this too!!

]]> By: Tony Conniff http://tonyconniff.com/13-ways-to-ask-what-if-and-access-more-songwriting-creativity/#comment-6806 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 05:14:16 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2452#comment-6806 In reply to Deborah Garth.

Thank you, Deb.
That’s a good ‘What If..?’!
TC

]]> By: Deborah Garth http://tonyconniff.com/13-ways-to-ask-what-if-and-access-more-songwriting-creativity/#comment-6805 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:35:59 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2452#comment-6805 Thanks Tony,

This is a really good post; the comfort zone make a song as dull as dishwater sometimes. Think I’ll print this out and keep it near my piano.

Deb

Just thought of another one……….What if I played it on the guitar instead – in a different tempo?

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