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