Steve over at Songwriting Apples sent me an update on their project.
For those not familiar, Songwriting Apples is friendly songwriting support group that lavishes it’s members with positive peer pressure and reinforcement to finish songs.
What you do is write a song and then post your MP3 demo (don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be […]

BMI presents:
Cliff Goldmacher’s Demo Production for Songwriters

This 2 1/2 hour discussion will cover:

Demo production and pre-production
Streamlining the demo process
Keeping budgets in check
Preparing of and pitching of finished demos

Cliff Goldmacher has recorded and produced over forty album projects and worked with artists from Emmylou Harris to Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors. Cliff has also served […]

Another month and another look back at songwriting one year ago.
We Can All Take A Songwriting Lesson From Toby Keith
We can all learn a lesson from Toby, and not just about songwriting. Toby has confidence, and yeah, he has a reason to have it - but so do all of us. We all excel in […]

Music fans of course, but they do so while reading a book, dancing, or doing something else. By listening like a musician the songwriter can learn a lot more about their own craft. This article is about listening like a musician, and about how doing so with one particular album helped me to learn things I could use in my own songwriting.

Ryan Adams writes 3-5 albums per year. He speaks to his prolific nature in an interview with the Vancouver Sun:
“I think that, if anything, if I’m prolific then I think that says more about the work ethic or the expectations of work in this day and age, in society. Because I certainly don’t, in my […]