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The Gears Index of Songwriting Terms is gradually growing. Big gears, little gears… here are a few new additions that I found inspiring. Enjoy! Answer Song Given that personal values inform the …
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We all need to loosen up. This afternoon I improvised songs with my niece. She saw a Taylor Swift concert over the weekend, and apparently it inspired her. So I strapped on a guitar and sat my niece …
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1. Free writing Free writing is basically just unstructured, haphazard, nonstop writing. Forget that your pencil has an eraser. Forget that your keyboard has a backspace key. Ready…? Set… The goal …
Today I reviewed the lyric sheets from my marathon writing session during "February: Album Writing Month," an annual speed songwriting challenge that quite a few Halted Clock regulars participated …
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In the previous post we took a look at some songwriting missteps that I see over and over again in my students and in myself. I hope I’m not encouraging existential paranoia here, but many of us are …
The tag “#everymanshouldknowhowto” is trending on Twitter. We can work with this writing prompt, can’t we? Here’s your setup: Every man should know… Using this as a starting point, list out any …
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