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Four Lessons in Songwriting From Sylvia Plath
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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10 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Waste Your Practice Time
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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How Did John Zorn Write 300 Songs in 90 Days?
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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Here’s How to Write 14 Songs in 28 Days
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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An Easy, Little-Known Rhyming Technique That Adds Excitement to Your Lyric
Why, as songwriters, do we place rhyming words at the end of each line? How and when did that become normal? We songwriters don't usually think about this method as "end rhyme" at all; we just think …
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