Don’t Be Afraid To Change Your Song’s Title
My friend Marc Blatte, a hit songwriter himself, tells me that he had conversations, individually,…
My friend Marc Blatte, a hit songwriter himself, tells me that he had conversations, individually,…
In our lyrics, most of us tend to write about the same things over and…
We songwriters spend a lot of time contending with what I call the ‘crossword puzzle’…
When writing a lyric, we songwriters often have trouble answering a very mundane question: What…
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’…
A lyric might tell a specific story, describe a situation, paint a picture, create a…
It was a coincidence that, just weeks after writing a post about how finding an…
I never liked the idea of using a rhyming dictionary. Occasionally, when in a song…
The big ideas in a song are most important – the Chorus, the Hook, the…
Something that comes up frequently in songwriting discussions is the idea that it’s important for…
Something I’ve encountered frequently with songwriters I’ve worked with, one of the most common songwriting…
Musicality and Sound are parts of lyric writing that can be easy to neglect, but…
Having written the main pieces of a song (say the words and music for a…
Before I commit myself to a musical phrase, especially when it contains a Title, it’s…
I’ve often said that the most dangerous word in songwriting is ‘IT’. As with any…
I was listening to Rick Rubin’s podcast, Broken Record. He was interviewing Barry Gibb of…
It’s not uncommon for songwriters to be asked, “What’s this song about?” The question is…
Writing songs with hooks that are just sounds, without literal meaning, is a special talent,…