Songwriting

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 Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Inductees: Aerosmith, Foreigner …

The Songwriting Hall of Fame’s 44th annual slate of inductees have been announced: Tony Hatch, Mick Jones & Lou Gramm, Holly Knight, JD Souther and Steven Tyler & Joe Perry will join previous recipients like Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Sam Cooke and …

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Classic hitmaker on songwriting in the digital age

“The word demo at that time implied the songwriters would make a relatively rudimentary (recording) of a song and send that out to a recording artist, or manager, or more often an A&R person at a record label.” After the artist or executive decided to …

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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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Songwriting Tip: Don’t Ever Say “I’m Just a Lyricist”

Don’t Ever Say “I’m Just a Lyricist.”  That’s the advice of Molly-Ann Leikin, Music Business Mastery Consultant.  If you have the gift of lyric writing, then check this out! Dean – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –…

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English Teacher’s Role Helps Prisoners Find Their Voice Through Songwriting

            English teacher and musician Evan Davies has combined his passion for music with his occupation by taking on the role of a songwriting mentor for prisoners A Taranaki teacher with a passion for music is helping prisoners find their voice through songwriting. In a Maori Television documentary New Plymouth…

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Farce the Music: John Rich’s Songwriting Tips #65

John Rich’s Songwriting Tips #65. I’ve already told you before that me and my boy Big Kenny were the originators and the innovators of hick-hop along with our big black cowboy compadre, Mr. Cowboy Troy. What you may …

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