Iron & Wine – The Indirect Style And Sound Of Sam Beam’s Songwriting
Iron & Wine is singer/songwriter Sam Beam and whichever musicians and singers he decides to…
Iron & Wine is singer/songwriter Sam Beam and whichever musicians and singers he decides to…
While scribbling away on our pads or pecking away at our iPads, as we write…
A big part of why understanding song structure is so important is that listeners bring…
Rarely does a songwriting workshop session go by when I don’t find myself talking about…
I was thinking about Pre-Choruses – about how many times, in songs of mine and…
I’ve been listening to the classic blues song, ‘You Can’t Judge A Book By Its…
Here’s a good block-breakin’, stimulatin’, new-idea-creatin’ songwriting tool: Ask yourself ‘What If…?’ For example –…
It is a truth universally accepted (sorry, Jane) that a song with a good Title/Chorus…
Even when I’m ‘teaching songwriting’, I never think of it this way. I believe you…
‘If it can be cut, then CUT IT OUT. Everything non-essential that you can eliminate…
Even more than most of these posts, this is just an opinion. But my opinion…
In preparing for a recent gig I was, as usual before a show, singing my…
In a Verse/Chorus song, Bridges usually happen a minute and a half to two minutes…
Recently I heard some talented students record a song that I’ve always liked, and still…
Two very different lines from very different songs recently caught my attention for the same…
Every song I write is an opportunity. Not just an opportunity to write a good…
Songs with sections – Verses, Choruses, Bridges – in which every line has a similar…
It’s a practical and sensible songwriting convention that, in a Verse/Chorus song, the Chorus will…
What makes Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ a great song, maybe one of the great songs? Greatness…
When writing a lyric, we songwriters often have trouble answering a very mundane question: What…