July 2026
Unlocking Your Creative Potential: Essential Songwriting Tips to Overcome Songwriter’s Block
Discover proven techniques to break through songwriter’s block and reignite your musical creativity with practical strategies that work.
The Four Building Blocks of Your First Song (And Where to Start)
Most people who sit down to write their first song freeze up because they think they need to nail everything at once: a great lyric, a strong melody, chords that actually work together, and a groove that ties it all up. That’s a lot to hold in your head, especially if you’ve never done it […]
In Songwriting, The Secret Isn’t That It Gets Easier. It’s That You Stop Panicking.
Just imagine… You’re twenty minutes into a writing session. The verse is fine, maybe better than fine. And then the chorus won’t come. You try a line, it’s flat. You try another, it’s worse. The clock keeps moving and there’s a small, familiar voice starting up in the back of your head: maybe this one […]
The Six Categories of Self-Training (For Songwriters)
Well known author and blogger Steven Pressfield wrote a piece recently called “Three Kinds of Self-Training”, where he breaks his own creative discipline into six categories: It’s a short piece, but it’s stuck with me since I read it, because it names something most songwriters do without ever putting words to it. We talk ourselves […]