Better To Get Your Song Right Than Get It Perfect
I spend a lot of time, with my own songs, and with others’ in songwriting…
I spend a lot of time, with my own songs, and with others’ in songwriting…
It’s a truism that the best way to finish a piece of writing is to…
Neil Young’s musical sophistication is underestimated. Many people love his songs, of course. He’s an…
Will Lee recently did a great (almost) solo version of John Lennon’s ‘I’m A Loser’…
The first time we hear a song we take in the big picture, we notice…
In songwriting there’s a lot of emphasis on self-expression. That’s understandable, and certainly it’s hard…
This post is about one of the most powerful songs I’ve heard in a long…
I’m impressed by how Billie Eilish and her co-writer/brother Finneas O’Connell managed to craft a…
Almost 3 years ago I wrote a blogpost about the development of a new variation…
At Tony Conniff Songwriting Workshops we just began a new 5 week group, this one…
There’s a craft to doing anything really well. In songwriting, part of learning is doing…
A lot of my songs have started from mistakes (and yes… I know there are…
I was producing someone whose song’s melody was considerably lower in the Chorus than it…
“Songwriting is like attempting to solve the NYT crossword during a therapy session.” I came…
In my recent songwriting, I’ve noticed something that I take to be a positive development…
As time passes – in a few months it’ll officially be over 50 years since…
In a good song everything is important, everything matters – every melody note, word, chord.…
I had a gig with my band and some special guests Monday night. It went…
A lot of Lennon & McCartney’s early songs were what you might call ‘genre’ songs.…
There’s no question in my mind that, when writing a song, an awareness of what…