Contributed by recording and songwriting expert Cliff Goldmacher.
As a result of recording and producing literally hundreds of demos, I’ve learned that it is always better to “Prepare and Prevent” than to “Repair and Repent.” Here are a few steps you can take to help make your demo recording experience more successful.
Song Preparation
It may sound obvious […]

Still clearing out my inbox from the holidays. Here’s a few items that grabbed my interest.

Songwriting Challenges. Although they might resent being mentioned in the same sentence, both FAWM (February Album Writing Month - 14 songs in 28 days) and the RPM Challenge (Record and Album in 28 Days) are beginning in February. We’re only […]

Several Blogging Muses readers have taken to just getting out there and doing it (songwriting that is). Some have felt the reverberation of articles like “If you want to be a songwriter it’s never the right time” and my own “4/4 Challenge“. The songwriters at Songwriting Apples were generally impressed by Jonathan Coulton’s Thing-A-Week project. […]

Contributed by: Dainis W. Michel
Are you curious about how to write song lyrics? I’ve put together a few tips that might help you. Be sure to go through the free music composition lesson on [the] site [listed below] to gather further information on what will help you grow as a songwriter.
There are many, many approaches […]

(Press Release)
Vikki Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter from a folk group called “The Waifs” won the Overall Grand Prize as well as the first prize in the Folk category with her song “Bridal Train” in the 11th Annual USA Songwriting Competition. This is also the first time that the top prize went to a songwriter outside United […]

So you’re here to do a bit of inspirational brainstorming for your next music composition eh?
OK…
What makes you mad?
Seriously, what makes you really f-ing mad?
Anyone make you mad recently? Anyone do anything that makes you mad?
What about our air, water, soil, natural resources, peacefulness? Happy about all of that?
Isolate the components of the anger.
Now convert […]

Madeleine Peyroux talks about songwriting as art:
“My understanding is pretty superficial, I guess, but what I get from music is it allows us to communicate those things that we never manage to say with words. Art allows us to be vague or ambiguous and it shows the positivity of ambiguity, instead of demanding that we […]