The Unexpected Gift
There have been periods in my life, long periods, when I wrote two or three…
There have been periods in my life, long periods, when I wrote two or three…
When I hear a song I like that’s either new, new to me, or that…
It’s common for songwriters to anxiously think something like, “when people hear my songs, then…
Melodies are a songwriter’s secret weapon. More than any other part of a song, a…
When asked which came first, the music or the lyrics, the great lyricist Sammy Cahn…
When writing a lyric, we songwriters often have trouble answering a very mundane question: What…
If I’m lucky, I start out a song with an idea I like – music,…
“If I play this song in public and it’s not copyrighted, isn’t there a chance…
Recently I was with a friend of mine who’s in a creative field and quite…
It’s hard for most of us songwriters to write a bunch of good songs unless…
I used to be lazy about keeping track of the songs I’d written. When I…
The way I often write lyrics that rhyme – and I don’t think this is…
Often the trickiest part of writing a song is finding what I call the ‘angle’…
Our opportunities to consume grow every day. There’s stuff – things we spend money on.…
We take in songs on different levels. One is with our heads. We like or…
There are as many songwriting processes as there are songwriters, and there’s certainly no ‘right’…
I’ve never acknowledged to myself that I have ‘writer’s block’. So if I’ve ever had…
‘I Can’t Tell You Why’ is a classic song written by Timothy B. Schmit, Glenn…
For me, what has always been most important is the next song. I tried my…
When chords change and the bass note stays the same under the moving chords, that’s…