Even just the last few months has seen a meteoric rise in the number of great songwriting blogs and sites around the web. So many that I can hardly keep up. I used to cover many of the popular songwriting sites quite regularly and nowadays I just stockpile articles in my STARRED newsreader folder for [...]

If so, here is a brief summary of some of our Songwriting Articles: This section has all the articles, how-to’s, songwriter interviews and so forth. (Songwriting Articles) Songwriting Tips: We run an archive of songwriting tips which are contributed by you – the reader. Tips are categorized and indexed and searchable. (Songwriting Tips | Submit [...]

There are lots of songwriting forums out there, which Blogging Muses has covered in the past. But several newsletter subscribers have mentioned they would love a forum to chat with other readers. Naturally, I would have no problem putting a forum together, but do you feel there is something missing in current songwriting forums that [...]

I am not affiliated in any way with the American Idol Songwriting Contest. I am just saying because people are sending me their songs for the contest. It’s not me! I have just been covering the news and pointing where people can go! Go here for all the details on the American Idol Songwriting Contest.

For those of you that use newsreaders to keep up with all the news sites and blogs, Blogging Muses has the following RSS subscription options: Blogging Muses Main Feed This is the feed that has all the main entries and articles. Songwriting Tips Project Feed This is the feed that monitors any new songwriting tips [...]

The Group Songwriting Tips Project has been a fun project over the last couple of months. We have 50+ tips in the archives right now. You can view the songwriting tips by category, as well as just click through all the songwriting tips one at a time. Got a songwriting tip of your own? If [...]

Tonight, the CMA campaigning ends. Tomorrow (Tuesday), Congress campaigning ends. Don’t forget to vote tomorrow. Yeah, I know – sometimes the lines are long. Some of those voting places could use some ambiance for crying out loud. But just do it. Please? Hell, take your guitar and sing a Dixie Chicks song, or a Toby [...]

Readers have requested that I highlight the songwriting articles on the site better. I am working on a redesign of the top of the page to highlight featured articles and the articles archive. In the meantime, here are some of the more popular articles over the last two months: Songwriters Ask: Should I rewrite? Create [...]

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 [...]

XTernal2006 thinks more people prefer complex songs to simple ones: I don’t really agree with the fact that it’s stated that listeners would (all?)prefer simple songs they can remember easily. I personaly prefer more complex melodies and chord progressions. The more music you hear, the more complexity I like. Music is like math…simple songs get [...]