There are times when we sit down to write a song because we want to. And then there are times when we sit down to write because we have no other choice. If you’ve been writing songs for any length…
“Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it’s a big deal to bow—or kneel or get knocked down—to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else’s. Not even those books…
If you spend any amount of time in the online world, you’ll notice something interesting… The people who consistently create engaging content aren’t just “winging it.” And here’s the thing, that’s also what great songwriters do. The only difference is…
As songwriters, we’re generally never short on songwriting ideas. In fact, most of us are sitting on a backlog of half-written verses, chorus ideas, voice memos, lyric fragments, and rough demos that never quite made it to the finish line…
If you spend any time talking to and hanging out with songwriters, you’ll hear a familiar topic of conversation. “I’ve got hundreds of ideas… but very few finished songs.” This would mean voice memos full of melodies. Notebooks packed with…
If you listen closely to the songs that stay with you the longest, you’ll notice something interesting. Great songs rarely deal in vague language. Instead of telling you someone is lonely, they show you the empty room. Instead of telling…
You see, every songwriter has an ideas graveyard. It lives in notebooks, phone notes, voice memos, half-finished DAW sessions, scraps of paper, and old lyric files with names like “new song idea 7” or “verse chorus maybe.” For me, I…
“See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do on that…
If you’re like most songwriters, you probably have a graveyard somewhere. Not an actual graveyard of course… but a folder on your computer, a notebook, or a voice memo list filled with half-finished songs (I know I do). Starting songs…