If Marvin Gaye Can Do It, So Can You
Writing my post last week about the non-plagiarism of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got To Give It…
Writing my post last week about the non-plagiarism of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got To Give It…
The first time I heard Robin Thicke and Pharrell William’s Blurred Lines I thought, “This…
Most songs have music and lyrics that match – moody music gets sad lyrics; happy,…
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I don’t have one ‘handy’ gene in me, so I’ve always been amazed when I…
When I hear a song I like that’s either new, new to me, or that…
In the summer of 1945 in Los Angeles, on one of the hottest days of…
Buddhists preach non-attachment. Today, though I’m not religious, I will join their ranks, at least…
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Skill is a big part of the difference between an amateur and a professional. Just…
The human mind instinctively looks for patterns. It will even make up patterns when none…
There are a lot of reasons – particularly on the business side – why it’s…
“Creative destruction is a process through which something new brings about the demise of whatever…
Almost all of my songs are Title-based songs. Even though I don’t usually ‘write from…
Nothing great that humans make is ever perfect, even if anyone could figure out what…
It’s not too hard for me to get sick of my own songwriting. Sometimes it…
Many of us find completing a lyric to be difficult at times. There can be…
When writing a Verse/Chorus song, say I’ve got the Title and Chorus. When it comes…
The Elements Of Style, Strunk and White’s classic and still magisterial book about written English…
Joni Mitchell’s song ‘For Free’ is a superb example of storytelling in a song. It…