Opening Up Your Chord Sounds – Or Not
I’ve noticed that most writers tend to either stick with triads OR use upper extensions…
I’ve noticed that most writers tend to either stick with triads OR use upper extensions…
This week’s post touches on a painful subject – cutting things that I really like…
The writer says what he or she has to say… and the length of the…
Although the Bridge of a song can be delightful, by the time it comes along…
Everyone’s heard thousands of songs. If a songwriter isn’t on her or his game, even…
In basketball they say about some players, “He/she is a good finisher.” That means that…
The two very different great songs we’ll look at today use the same device to…
To get going on a new song idea, I have to have a sense of…
It’s good to remember that writing melodies and words for songs relates very strongly to…
Sometimes the moment comes when I realize my song is just not going to work…
Not all punctuation. I’ve got nothing against apostrophes. But most punctuation that’s put on a…
I don’t know how anyone finishes, really finishes, a song without having a deadline of…
Many people who write and teach fiction, playwriting, screenwriting, etc., suggest that writers not go…
I think a reader of this blog, no matter how occasional, might notice how much…
1) This sucks. 2) I stole this melody from another song – I just don’t…
Refugee (Tom Petty/Mike Campbell) In no particular order: 1) Extremely economical songwriting – The Verse…
Many if not most songs start with the writer having a strong emotional connection to…
‘Maybe I’m the only one who feels this… or thinks like this… or sees it…
Listening again recently to Amy Winehouse’s really good song ‘Rehab’, I was struck by several…
The great Philip Roth was talking about being shameless in the writing, not in one’s…