Songwriting tips, techniques, and ideas
Maine has four distinct seasons: furious white winters, muddy melting springtimes, lush hot summers, chilled expectant Autumns. Sit here in my chair for a year, and you'll see seasons roll by the …
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If at any point you feel weird about receiving applause and praise, it's probably because you're suspicious—you don't feel in your heart like you've earned it. I've seen singer-songwriters burn out, …
by Nicholas Tozier Many of you reading this were raised on the radio. At twenty-six, I belong to perhaps one of the last batches of American radio babies who might have sufficient knowledge about …
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There's much discussion among songwriters (and creative writers in general) about using sensory details to engage the inner senses of your audience. Sensory details work so well because they appeal …
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Berklee professor Pat Pattison, author of the classic songwriting text Writing Better Lyrics, is publishing a book of songwriting exercises called Songwriting Without Boundaries. It’s now available …
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Like most words, lyric has deep roots. It hasn't always referred to the text of a song, as it does now. 1876 This marks the earliest instance we've found of lyric being used to mean "the words of a …