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Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters
Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: “the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.” Over a span of almost four decades, he has …
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Just Because it’s Fun to Play Doesn’t Mean it’s Fun to Hear
Alas. As the title of this post says: just because a song is fun to play doesn't mean that it's fun to hear. Given that unpleasant truth, if you can manage to hear your own songs as though they were …
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“Is Songwriting Mostly Inspiration or Perspiration?”
“Is songwriting mostly inspiration or perspiration?” This question typically divides the room into two camps. Camp 1: The Inspiration Fetishists Some of the songwriters present cross their arms …
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Songwriting Lessons from Dante’s Inferno
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Breath in Songwriting
If the human voice is the instrument most essential to songwriting, then breath itself shapes our art. Songs contain pauses, or rests, where the singer can inhale. But if you consciously pay …