We Respond To Songs Primarily As SOUND
When working on a song and concentrating hard on the component parts – lyrics, melody,…
Think Out Of The Songwriting ‘Box’: Drop A Bar!
We’ve all heard tens of thousands of songs. If a song is extremely predictable, most…
Returning To My List Of Song Titles
Some songwriters won’t even start a song without a Title they feel good about. I…
‘Write it down, no matter how dumb it seems at the time.’
I wrote a note to myself the other day – ‘Write it down, no matter…
Let The Words Change The Melody Sometimes
A very common songwriter’s dilemma is to have a melody line and a lyric for…
One Quick Way To Start Writing a Song From Scratch
Here’s one quick way to get started from scratch on writing a new song: Take…
News Flash: Melodies Can Improve!
It may seem overly obvious to state that melodies, like all other aspects of a…
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