Bring The Pain – To Your Songs
It’s common for songwriters to anxiously think something like, “when people hear my songs, then…
Take The Great Leap In Your Songwriting
Melodies are a songwriter’s secret weapon. More than any other part of a song, a…
How To Finish Your Songs
When asked which came first, the music or the lyrics, the great lyricist Sammy Cahn…
How Thinking Backwards Helps You Finish Your Song
When writing a lyric, we songwriters often have trouble answering a very mundane question: What…
Who’s In Charge… You Or The Song?
If I’m lucky, I start out a song with an idea I like – music,…
Afraid Someone Might Steal Your Song?
“If I play this song in public and it’s not copyrighted, isn’t there a chance…
News Flash: You Can Improve Your Melodies!
It may seem too obvious to say that melodies, like all other aspects of a…
Are You A Writer Who Isn’t Writing?
Recently I was with a friend of mine who’s in a creative field and quite…
How To Find Your Habit of Songwriting
It’s hard for most of us songwriters to write a bunch of good songs unless…
How To Organize Your Lyric Sheets & Chord Charts
I used to be lazy about keeping track of the songs I’d written. When I…
Don’t Worry About The Rhyme – At First
The way I often write lyrics that rhyme – and I don’t think this is…
How To Find The Lyric That Points The Way
Tonight in a songwriting workshop I was working with a writer and something came up…
Finding the Angle to Your Chorus
Often the trickiest part of writing a song is finding what I call the ‘angle’…
Consume Or Create – Our Choice
Our opportunities to consume grow every day. There’s stuff – things we spend money on.…
The Secret Ingredient in a Hit Song
We take in songs on different levels. One is with our heads. We like or…
The Two Stages of Writing A Song
There are as many songwriting processes as there are songwriters, and there’s certainly no ‘right’…
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