Archive for the ‘Songwriting Tips’ Category

Good artists copy, great artists steal. So do songwriters.

By • Oct 14th, 2006 • Category: Songwriting Articles, Songwriting Tips

So said Steve Jobs (quoting Pablo Picasso) of Apple and Pixar fame. He went on to explain how he has been shameless about stealing ideas directly from competitors and improving them or making them appeal to the mass market. For those in the business of songwriting this philosophy can come in quite handy. Here are [...]



Songwriting Tips Group Project Update

By • Oct 11th, 2006 • Category: Songwriting Tips

Figured I would give you an update on the Songwriting Tips Group Project we announced last week. First off, thank you for all the great tips! We got dozens of songwriting tips and are ready to start showing them to the world. You can visit the Songwriting Tips Archives here. There are some little nuances [...]



Song Critique Checklist

By • Oct 2nd, 2006 • Category: Songwriting Articles, Songwriting Tips

Contributed by Janet Fischer of Good Night Kiss Music. Are your lyrics too repetitive? Do the same words (or phrases or ideas) repeat in the chorus that are already in your verses? If so, replace them with more storyline or more aspects of the situation. Are your lyrics really special? Get rid of fluff and [...]



Group Project: Songwriting Tips

By • Sep 30th, 2006 • Category: Inspiration, Site News, Songwriting Advice, Songwriting Resources, Songwriting Tips, Songwriting Tools

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 [...]



Capturing Song Ideas Roundup

By • Sep 26th, 2006 • Category: Songwriting Tips

Here you go – every article on how to capture songwriting ideas:



Songwriters: A song a week. Could you do it?

By • Sep 20th, 2006 • Category: Inspiration, Songwriting Advice, Songwriting Articles, Songwriting News, Songwriting Tips

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 [...]



Sending some link love to other songwriting blogs

By • Sep 20th, 2006 • Category: Songwriting Advice, Songwriting Resources, Songwriting Tips, Songwriting Tools

I was poking around Google’s Blog Search tool and found some pretty cool songwriting blogs. There are some that have great promise. I would love to see more frequent updates – so head on over and let them know what you think. Leave a comment to let em know you were there: Ultimate Songwriting BlogAt [...]



Songwriters Ask: Should I rewrite?

By • Sep 18th, 2006 • Category: Inspiration, Songwriting Advice, Songwriting Articles, Songwriting Tips

Readers Ask: I have a fairly decent song I wrote in one sitting. Lyrics and music. I was amazed at how well it came to me. Should I leave it alone or should I try and rewrite? Great question. From a professional songwriting perspective, the answer is almost always a resounding “yes”. Professional songwriters are [...]



Songwriting Tip: Constrained writing

By • Sep 15th, 2006 • Category: Inspiration, Songwriting Advice, Songwriting Articles, Songwriting Tips

Gadsby is a novel written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright. The unique feature of this novel was how he wrote it. He actually tied down the E-key of the typewriter so he was not allowed to use that letter in the entire novel! While some might see this as unimaginable and a task of [...]



Chart-topping songwriter roundup

By • Sep 13th, 2006 • Category: Inspiration, Songwriting Advice, Songwriting News, Songwriting Tips

Over the summer we had quite a few stories and inside scoops on the biggest songwriters (and singer-songwriters) in the industry. In case you missed them, here are some of the best: Songwriting insight from Daniel Powter and another interview with a great quote here. Garth Brooks and the writing of “That Summer” We All [...]