The Secret Ingredient in a Hit Song
We take in songs on different levels. One is with our heads. We like or…
We take in songs on different levels. One is with our heads. We like or…
There are as many songwriting processes as there are songwriters, and there’s certainly no ‘right’…
Catchy. You want your Intro to catch people, to grab them, to pique their interest.…
I’ve never acknowledged to myself that I have ‘writer’s block’. So if I’ve ever had…
‘I Can’t Tell You Why’ is a classic song written by Timothy B. Schmit, Glenn…
A lyric might tell a specific story, describe a situation, paint a picture, create a…
For me, what has always been most important is the next song. I tried my…
It was a coincidence that, just weeks after writing a post about how finding an…
When chords change and the bass note stays the same under the moving chords, that’s…
I never liked the idea of using a rhyming dictionary. Occasionally, when in a song…
At various times most of us writers worry about whether what we’re working on is…
You get an idea – let’s say it’s an idea for the design of a…
The big ideas in a song are most important – the Chorus, the Hook, the…
Melodies are fascinating. Probably the most mysterious – and often under-explored, by us writers –…
Someone sent me a link to a recent, live version of El DeBarge singing his…
At the start, there’s an idea – a Title, a melody phrase, a riff or…
I’m impressed by how Billie Eilish and her co-writer/brother Finneas O’Connell managed to craft a…
Sometimes when I’m writing there’s not much flow. The fresh ideas are not there; everything…
Regarding melodies, motion and variety are In most cases a good thing. A melody tells…
As regular readers of this blog know, I came late to taking my songwriting –…