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.
Corey Stewart
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…
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…
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…
The Drawer System: A Shame-Free Way to Sort Your Finished Songs
You finish a song. You set it aside and start the next one. Then the next. Before long, you’ve got a folder full of songs, some are finished and some are half-baked all sitting there with the same unanswered question…
Stuck Again? 20 Honest Tips From a Home Studio Veteran
There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with being a songwriter who isn’t finishing songs. It’s not that you don’t care. It’s not that you’re lazy. It’s that somewhere between the idea and the finished track, something stalls. You…
The Real Work: Why Revision Is Where Songs Actually Get Made
There’s a story most songwriters tell themselves, and it goes something like this: the best songs arrive fully formed. A melody appears in the shower. A lyric drops into your head on the drive home. The song writes itself in…
What Your Verse Is Actually For (And How to Write One That Works)
Ok, let’s set the scene here… You’ve got the chorus. Or at least the feeling of one, turning over in your head. You know what the song wants to say at its peak. You can hear it. Then you sit…
Why You Shouldn’t Quit Songwriting Just Because the Music Business Looks Broken
There’s a version of this conversation that happens in every generation of musicians. The details change, but the shape of it is always remains the same: the industry is in chaos, the money is drying up, the old rules don’t…