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Why Most Songwriters Never Finish Songs (And How to Fix It)

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 and for a long time, I thought the problem was the ideas themselves. But according […]

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Why Songwriters Struggle to Finish Songs (And How to Fix It)

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 is easy but finishing them? That’s where things get interesting. Recently I came across a […]

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How to Finish Your Song Ideas: Turning Spark into Fire

If you’ve ever found yourself knee-deep in unfinished song ideas, half-formed verses, catchy chorus hooks, or just a melodic fragment stuck in your voice memos, you’re not alone. In fact, this is such a common issue among songwriters that Speed Songwriting has dedicated an entire article to tackling it head-on. The post, titled “How to […]