Rikk’s Revues talks about Songwriting Organizations - The 5 W’s
The creator of American Idol talks to the LA Times about their new songwriting competition to run on the next season. (Login might be required. It wasn’t required the first time but it was the second time. WTF?) (An update to the competition has been posted [...]

Phenomenal songwriter Jesse Harris talks a bit about just getting in there and starting to write. Don’t worry about a style, just write write write!

Vernon (one of my favorite guitar players) offers some great perspective on keeping real and organic in the songwriting process.

I wrote an earlier article Can great songs be written with only two chords, and I promised I would provide a summary of song examples suggested by Blogging Muses readers.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed songs to the list. There were many I never even realized before. Quite eye-opening.
I am a little late [...]

Many songwriters say that once they have a good song title the “song practically writes itself”. If you are one of these people, then this tip is for you. If you are not one of these people, perhaps this exercise will help spur on creativity.
This songwriting exercise is built off of an older, existing songwriting [...]

Songwriter Steven Bowers on growing as a songwriter:
“Eventually you have to get into that [storytelling] mode of writing. You can’t keep writing about what’s going on in your own head, internalizing everything, so that’s what I’ve started doing with this record.”
His take on co-writing:
“You just get a little bit of colour from somebody else. Everyone [...]

This is Part four of my Lyric Writing guide. Here you will find general writing tips to apply to your lyric. Includes information on drafts, hooks and re-writing.
As I have stated in other parts of this guide, I cannot tell you word for word how to write lyrics. Everyone has their own writing style and [...]

This is Part three of my Lyric Writing guide. Here you will learn how to accompany words by using samples and ghost songs.
AUTHORS NOTE: I don’t personally use this method of song writing. I don’t write rap music and don’t listen to enough of this form to have a deeper understanding of the writing process. [...]

This is Part two of my Lyric Writing guide. (View Part one.) Here you will learn how to accompany words by writing alternate lyrics.
It is important not to mistake alternate lyrics with cover songs. There are many ways to cover a song, you can alter the lyrics slightly to modernize it like in the Disturbed [...]

Lyric writing is much like any other style of writing, the more time you spend working on it, the more you will grow as a writer. So what exactly are lyrics? Song lyrics can basically be thought of as singable poetry. The Oxford dictionary defines the word ‘lyric’ as 1) (of poetry) expressing the poet’s [...]