For a few years now, mischievous Internet hooligans have been editing video footage of celebrities and political leaders—and Auto Tuning them. Ever wanted to see Barack Obama sing about the BP …
How to Own Any Stage You Walk Onto
Stage fright is a perfectly normal, non-fatal, and predictable instinct—and unlike your drummer, it’ll always show up early. Yes, that’s right, I snuck an uncalled-for drummer joke into an article …
48 Quick Thoughts on Songwriting
a flaw in a song should not threaten your self-worth collaboration leads to self-discovery seduce all of the listener’s senses whenever possible if it feels unsettling and too revealing, you’re on …
6 Ways to Maintain a Steady Stream of New Song Ideas
A few days after deciding that I'd write 14 songs in February, I started noticing song premises every day. I hadn't consciously changed my routine. I hadn't even begun to put in significant time at …
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Push Your Comfort Zones and Write an Album of Original Songs by February 29th, 2012
By February 29th—four weeks from today—you could have an album completed. Written, recorded, done. During February Album Writing Month (FAWM), songwriters sprint to complete an album’s worth of …
Burn Your File of Song Ideas and Start Over (I Dare You)
Losing my life’s work in 2011 was one of the luckiest spins I could've hoped for. All those half-finished songs? Gone. Failed novels? Outta here! Awful sonnets? Ciao! For a decade I’d been starting …
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