Although I have had it told to me hundreds of times in my life, I am going to keep this thought at the forefront:
“It is never the right time.”
Too many people hold off on their dreams until “things are right” - whether that is family, job, inner peace, whatever. I have realized there will […]
This was such a great interview I thought it deserved it’s own page on Blogging Muses. With the release of Tom’s 3-disc monster titled, “Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards“, he let’s Pitchfork in on a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes of his songwriting process.
Some choice quotes I enjoyed:
On working with his […]
One of my favorite songwriters talks about the songwriting process and his evolution as a songwriter between the first album and his new album, Supply And Demand.
This was #4 in a 12-part podcast series. View the whole series at iFilm.
Last Friday I announced a small songwriting challenge I gave to myself. I won’t re-explain the challenge, but you can read about it here.
In short, I decided to complete 4 songs in 4 hours. Here is what happened:
Hour 1: Beautiful Lies
I finished up the verses but was completely stuck still on the bridge. I have […]
My recurring problem is I have great fragments of song ideas but never follow them through to completion.
That will change (for today at least!).
After reading about Jonathan Coulton’s Thing-A-Week Project, as well as the songwriting tip contributed by Ruth Greenwood I have become increasingly inspired, and decided to submit myself to a challenge.
My songwriting […]
The Decemberists are one of those “Indie” bands that has been overhyped by all the music blogs in the past year or so. The difference? The Decemberists ACTUALLY deliver on the hype. I am totally in love with this band at the moment. Awesome songwriting, both technically and from the perspective of a casual listener […]
(From contributing blogger Ryan Galloway)
So it’s time to report in on some of the results of my own little open mike tour, while I bounce around the country as a traveling consultant.
In my last blog on the subject, I had told you about Don Mak’s idea for booking an “open mike” tour using OpenMikes.org. I […]
Writing poetry is hard, and let’s face it — in many ways songwriting is poetry. It’s even more challenging because you’re trying to fit words to melody, as well as meter and rhyme. You have three or four minutes to tell your story, and a third of that time is eaten up by the chorus. […]
Who’s up for a group songwriting project?
Some readers have emailed me songwriting tips, but don’t really want to contribute a whole article to Blogging Muses. So, more than one reader has suggested putting together a repository of songwriting tips from the Blogging Muses readers.
Great idea! So I spent last night putting together a little […]
This is quite an inspirational piece for me as a songwriter.
So … there’s this guy, Jonathan Coulton, that decided to write a song a week for 1 year. He would post a new song every Friday that he recorded in his very modest home studio. He dubbed the project “Thing-A-Week”.
He started out not really knowing […]
