Sometimes Your Story Doesn’t Belong In Your Song’s Story
Most if not all of us songwriters, also known as people, have our go-to stories…
Most if not all of us songwriters, also known as people, have our go-to stories…
I was watching Paul McCartney on Steven Colbert’s show. They were discussing the fact that…
Jokes may be the purest form of writing and performance. There’s a setup… then a…
Lyrics on a page or a screen can be deceptive. They can ‘read well’, they…
In a Senate hearing this week, televised live, Lindsay Graham said the words, “Donald Trump…
I recently was invited to see the new Broadway show about The Temptations, ‘Ain’t Too…
A while back I attended a Songwriters Hall Of Fame Masters Session @ NYU that…
In discussing great Choruses, The Beatles usually come up; no discussion of superior songwriting is…
Sometimes songs with very few words can be really effective. I’m not talking here about…
I recently wrote a song call ‘Rise To Your Love’. Given the feel of the…
“Another thing I do is I might play someone else’s material that I really like…
One of my favorite songwriting lessons comes by way of the late great Tom Petty…
Some songs take weeks, months, even years to write… and even then they might not…
Instead of working from the beginning of the line and discovering the rhyme at the…
Queen’s ‘We Are The Champions’ (written by Freddie Mercury) consistently intrigued me. I’ve always been…
‘We’ is a pronoun that pops up a lot in songs. If you’re singing to,…
A month ago I wrote a song called ‘The Less I Know The Better’. Yesterday…
Sometimes a songwriter is inspired – excited creatively and/or financially – to use a chunk…
There is of course no correct way to write a song; no right way to…
A very common situation: I’ve got a Title and at least a substantial part of…