A Year Ago In Songwriting: September 2006
By Don • Sep 6th, 2007 • Category: Songwriting News
- Group Project: Songwriting Tips
We started our popular Group Songwriting Tips Project last September. I can’t believe it’s been a year already! - Songwriters, Get Out Of Town (Part II)
“Then I started poking around on www.OpenMikes.org, the site that Don suggested we all use to book our “open mike tour.” To recap from Don’s article, this is an awesome site. Just go to the main page and type in your city or ZIP code. Tell the form how far out you want to look from the epicenter (25 miles, 50 miles, etc.). Then simply click “OK” and you’re off. You get list of every registered open mike night within the area specified. But that’s not the best part … - Songwriters: A song a week. Could you do it?
Takes a closer look at Jonathan Coulton’s “Song a Week” Project and asks whether others could do the same. - Do music blogs REALLY help independant songwriters?
There have been some success stories of music blogs launching music careers into the stratosphere. But is it a good long term strategy? - Songwriters Ask: Should I rewrite?
The age old question. How much rewriting is too much? Should I just go with my first draft? - U.S. Military Songwriters
Music fan helps make military songwriter’s dreams a reality. - Songwriting Tip: Constrained writing
One of my favorite things to do as a songwriter is limit my topics and narrow my focus. This article was inspired by the novel “Gadsby”, which doesn’t contain the letter “e”. - Your recording studio experience: Helping songwriters avoid rip-offs and chaos
Once again, recording expert Cliff Goldmacher gives realistic advice to songwriters. This time, on maximizing studio time. - Why songwriters should pay attention to John Mayer
This article examines some of John Mayer’s work in more depth, lyric analysis from a songwriting perspective. - MySpace announces exciting things for unsigned musicians and songwriters
It was a year ago this month MySpace announced their SnoCap partnership. A year later results are mixed. - What Songwriter Nate Campany Did Last Weekend
This is a great inspirational story for those that want to get a gig writing songs for others.
Don is the founder, writer and editor of BloggingMuses.com. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
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