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Billy Bragg on “How To” Write a Song?

Billy Bragg has songwriting advice to offer.  Or does he? This video shows the UK artist and ubiquitous left-wing socialist interviewing with Daytrotter.com/Seagate Creative. Okay, maybe I am getting bored with all the attention going to musicians and songwriters with this political bent.  Sorry, people.  The musical world has a rich history of their works….

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Songwriting Tricks of the Beatles

                This is a guest post from regular reader and English songwriter Matt Blick: Five Beatles Songwriting Tricks – By Matt Blick The Beatles were songwriting Ninjas, but they employed many tricks that anyone can add to their songwriting tool box.

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Clouds by Zach Sobiech | Songwriting Tips Blog

              Check out Zach’s latest song – Fix Me Up – Clouds is now available on iTunes! To download go.

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How to Keep Your Songwriting Ideas Alive – Creative Song Writing …

The Songwriter’s Creative Flow – –  An interview by Katy Haymer From the music website of Deondrae Porter

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Songwriting Tip: When the Well Runs Dry

            Mark Cawley talks about songwriting, writers’ block and how to deal with it. Mark Cawley’s songs appeared on 15 million records: Tina Turner, Wynonna. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –…

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Songwriting Tip: How Do I Sell My Songs?

Molly-Ann Leikin, a hit songwriter says too many Songwriters keep asking her, “How do I sell my songs? Show me and help me to sell my songs!”   Maybe you aren’t expecting THIS answer. Dean ———————————————————————————— Songwriters always ask me, “how do I sell my songs? Can you show me how to sell my songs? Please help…

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Songwriting Tip: Inviting the Listener In

Ralph Murphy provides songwriting tips of “inviting the listener in”. He is a hit producer/songwriter: “Talking in Your Sleep”, “Half the Way”, etc..

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5 Songwriting Tips For The Lazy

It’s funny, being a songwriter myself, I always find that writing songs can sometimes be a chore. But why does it feel this way? Isn’t this supposed to be my passion? Isn’t this supposed to be something that I never get bored of?

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Songwriting Tip – Polishing the Silver Bowl (Pat Pattison)

Songwriting Tip: Pat Pattison talks about polishing songs, prosody, and ways to improve writing songs.

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