Right Now This Song Is A Mess… And That’s Fine
Life is a seesaw between chaos and order. Why should Songwriting be any different? There’s…
Life is a seesaw between chaos and order. Why should Songwriting be any different? There’s…
If you’re going to use the word ‘that’ in a song’s Title, it’s usually a…
Pardon the oversimplification, but people tend to respond to songs three ways – emotionally, intellectually,…
Things sound ‘right’ to us when they’re familiar – when we hear what we expect…
The only claim I make for my weekly Songwriting blog is factual: this is my…
You can call your song anything you want. You can use a word or phrase…
When choosing chords for (harmonizing) a song, you can tell a lot from listening to…
In a song I wrote recently I was puzzled, not for the first time, about…
The kind of songs I grew up with, the genres I loved the most, the…
It’s interesting when you get 35-50 songwriters together for a full day, as we do…
Ideas and inspiration are indispensable, but for most writers putting in the hours is how…
It’s no surprise that artists get inspiration from other artists, both in their field and…
Most of the great musicians and songwriters that I’ve met and worked with have two…
Songwriting, like recording, is usually a very repetitive process. I have to play the song…
The useful, musical qualities of rhyme are many – though that’s not the subject of…
Why do songs need structure… and why do they have the structures that they do?…
Once I’ve got the music for a song pretty together – the melody, the rhythm,…
I’m a musician and songwriter who for over a decade has also been facilitating Songwriting…
Here’s a way to get deeper into the craft, the nuts and bolts, of songwriting:…
In this era of therapy, Oprah, ‘having a positive attitude’, affirmations, ‘the secret’, even ‘the…