How To Fix a ‘Key’ Problem With Your Song
The key in which you write a song often occurs randomly. You happen to start…
The key in which you write a song often occurs randomly. You happen to start…
My friend Marc Blatte, a hit songwriter himself, tells me that he had conversations, individually,…
There have been periods in my life, long periods, when I wrote two or three…
In our lyrics, most of us tend to write about the same things over and…
When I hear a song I like that’s either new, new to me, or that…
A good melody tells a story. It doesn’t just help tell the story of the…
We songwriters spend a lot of time contending with what I call the ‘crossword puzzle’…
It’s common for songwriters to anxiously think something like, “when people hear my songs, then…
Melodies are a songwriter’s secret weapon. More than any other part of a song, a…
When asked which came first, the music or the lyrics, the great lyricist Sammy Cahn…
When writing a lyric, we songwriters often have trouble answering a very mundane question: What…
If I’m lucky, I start out a song with an idea I like – music,…
“If I play this song in public and it’s not copyrighted, isn’t there a chance…
It may seem too obvious to say that melodies, like all other aspects of a…
Recently I was with a friend of mine who’s in a creative field and quite…
It’s hard for most of us songwriters to write a bunch of good songs unless…
I used to be lazy about keeping track of the songs I’d written. When I…
The way I often write lyrics that rhyme – and I don’t think this is…
Tonight in a songwriting workshop I was working with a writer and something came up…
Often the trickiest part of writing a song is finding what I call the ‘angle’…