So I’m digging through the scores of songs I’ve written, re-learning old favorites, building a new set to play out live.
And I have a terrible memory for stuff. I feel the chord changes, and know these songs cold on some subliminal level, but the fingerings become a mystery to me after six months or so. After four […]
Comments(0) Recently, I gave advice to someone who has been writing songs for years, but who has never been able to “make a record.”
Mr. Lennon was asked once to give advice to aspiring songwriters. His #1 piece of advice? “Finish everything. Don’t dwell on things.”
Go through your list of songs, and be brutal. Set aside anything […]
Comments(0) How many great, I mean truly great writers are completely forgotten? How many jaw dropping compositions are buried in a music library somewhere?
A few months back, blurry-eyed from trying to write eight (good) songs in a week, I found myself blindly searching google for, things. Ideas, images, anything to get an inspiration for a lyric or […]
They don’t teach you this stuff in music school. You learn it “on the playground,” so to speak. Someone you know shows you a few chords, and teaches you the wicked A -> Amaj7 to A7 chromatic dropdown that is the secret to a half dozen George Harrison songs. Or you’re rocking away in E and […]
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