What’s this Songwright thing, then?
Songwright is a blog and occasional podcast for songwriters. Nothing to do with business, very little to do with performing and recording, its purely about the craft of writing vocal music.
What is it for?
The basic idea is that in every post and every podcast you should find at least one idea that you could apply to your own songwriting. That’s it. Practical ideas that you can try out straight away to hep you with your own composing.
Who writes it?
Songwright is written by me, Tom Slatter, a music teacher and singer-songwriter with the acoustic indie duo Comrade Robot.
What Can I Find On Songwright.co.uk?
First off, you can take a look at the categories on the left, and search for topics with the search box on the top right.
The Podcast
Songwright began life as a podcast, before I figured out that blogging is less time consuming. I still make the occasional podcast.
Here are the old ones. :
- Episode 1 Episode 1
- Episode 2 Episode 2
- Episode 3 Episode 3
- Episode 4 Episode 4
- Episode 5 Episode 5
- Episode 6 Episode 6
- Episode 7 Episode 7
- Episode 8 Episode 8
- Episode 9 Episode 9
- Episode 10 Episode 10
Basics
I’ve also written a good few posts about music theory basics. The archive for them can be found by clicking here.
Some of my favourite posts in this category are the ones on time signatures:
And the ones on chord basics:
Form
I’ve got quite a few on form and structure, and I’m planning more.
Key Changes
I’ve got a small series on changing key too
A song writing A to Z
I’m currently writing G for Grooves
There you go, a small snapshot of what you can find on www.songwright.co.uk.
If there’s a subject you’d like me to explore further, or something I haven’t mentioned at all, please leave me a comment or email me on tomslattermusic AT gmail.com
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