Songwriting tips, techniques, and ideas
In this edition of The Sunday Songwriter: Why you should embrace your guilty music pleasures When writing imagery into a lyric, are you using all seven senses? Why do you listen to your favourite …
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In this post: Bill Evans on the creative process and self-teaching Dracula, Jesus, and Marilyn Munroe: Nick Cave's influences 113 Song Forms to Try The Common Mistake That'll Grow Hair on Any …
5 easy exercises to improve your listening skills Hundreds of quotes about music, songwriting, and creativity Secret haiku found hidden in the New York Times Ever feel like an untalented hack? We …
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In this edition of The Sunday Songwriter: A famed artist and nun shares her 10 rules for creative productivity The Poetry Foundation doesn't realize they're giving away 76 free song ideas The …
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Four links on creativity and the craft of songwriting. …
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Five links for composers and lyricists: one book and four blog posts. …
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By 1950, fresh out of high school, young Sylvia Plath had published her work in magazines read by thousands of people all over America. By 1953, she'd made her first documented suicide attempt. By …
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Hey musicians: are you wasting your practice time? We're all busy people, and we've all got limited time for our art. We've got to make the most of what little time we do have for music and …
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In 1990, New York-based composer John Zorn challenged himself to write one hundred tunes in one year's time. Each of the hundred tunes would touch on the Jewish musical tradition, and would follow …
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Today is day one of the yearly songwriting challenge called February Album Writing Month (FAWM). The goal of FAWM is to write 14 songs in 28 days — that's one song every two days, all month long. …
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On Friday, we songwriters and poets lost a legend: the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney died at age 74. The New York Times ran a retrospective on Heaney's life and poetry , recounting Heaney's rock …
It's surprisingly easy to generate dozens of song ideas any time you want to. "Inspiration" is actually something you can control. It's a set of skills. Here's one way to do it: Summarize any famous …
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