I can safely say that nothing ever moved as quickly as I thought it would and, yet, I’m constantly surprised at the ways that my long-forgotten efforts have come around to generate royalty income.

Although this is often true of beginners, it happens at all levels of ability and experience. It happens to everyone to some degree or another.

Ever wonder how a band creates its unique “sound,” or what makes a particular song so distinctive?

Stage fright is very common problem among performing songwriters. You can feel very confident about a song you wrote and recorded, but when it comes to playing it live, it may be harder for you to deliver the song with as much confidence as you had when you scratched it out on paper. But don’t [...]

One of the single most important elements in a great-sounding, professional recording is the performance of the session musicians. There is a reason that the job of the session musician exists.

We are adapting this theory to the Musical realm in a practical way so that we (the artists) can more effectively write music and in turn have the audience recognize, understand, and appreciate our music much more.

Contributed by: Cliff Goldmacher (www.EducatedSongwriter.com) As a new songwriter, you may be overwhelmed by all there is to do when it comes to moving forward in your career. I’d compare the approach of this article to eating the elephant one tiny bite at a time. In other words, by being patient, organized and methodical in your daily work [...]

This article was contributed by David Taylor II. You can visit his site at: DavidTaylor2.com As bona fide artists, in as much as crafting a good song is just as much of an art as performing said song, we as writers unfortunately do tend to fall prey to thinking a few highly erroneous things. Highly [...]

There has NEVER been a better time to spread the word about yourself and music. The internet, with its downloadable digital music files, social networking sites and countless other advances that we can’t even begin to imagine yet, has leveled the playing field in a way that will make the “work” you have to do infinitely more effective.