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How to write a song
About song structure The chorus is the part of a song that "hooks" in your head. It's the part you remember most, because it's the most repetitive. Verses are the set of lines that are different. When writing a verse you should try and tell a story throughout this section which will eventually...
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How songwriting turned me into a guitar teacher
I first picked up the guitar when I was 14 as I needed to have a musical accompaniment to the brilliant songs I was about to write that were going to make me famous and very rich. I am sure that is not an uncommon reason to want to learn to play guitar but I had no idea that later in my life,...
Musical Theatre Songwriting
Pop songs by their nature are about establishing a mood, sustaining it, and finishing with it. Theatre songs are about the opposite; good theatre songs go from one end of an idea to a different place. So what is the best training for a musical theatre songwriter? Know musicals. Know as many as...
Prolific writing
A friend recently mentioned a notable artist to me. Notable with regards to how prolific he was as a songwriter. This artist wrote one song a day, everyday for a whole year. At the end of the year he had, well, a bunch of mediocre unusable songs however, within all the muddle that was his...
Can songwriting be taught?
Critics of songwriting education may say songwriting classes is a waste of time; that you're born with it, and if you're not, there's nothing you can do to get it. Though you might have been born with a predisposition for music and language skill, it's more important to have been raised in an...