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I’ve just stumbled across a new (to me) songwriting blog called Songwritingscene.com and a fun little post with a great songwriting idea: ‘The Random Song Generator’ Our assignment was based on a “Random Song Generator” — basically three columns of words…the first is the person, the second is the place and the third is the action. Choose one [...] Yes, I’ve decided to take the February Album Writing Month challenge. I may be mad. But, if all goes well, you’ll be hearing a new song from me every two days for the month of Febraury, plus a collaboration (don’t yet know who with) on the 29th. My first song is up, and it makes use [...] I briefly mentioned this song in a recent post. This isn’t the best performance of it, but it will do for our purposes (here’s another recording). There are some songwriting ideas worth pointing out (and stealing). 1. The lyrics In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Do I really need [...] 1. The Shy Singer/Song writer A site run by Vikki Flawith, who is also taking part in FAWM this year 2. The Music Theory Minute A flash based theory site with some useful little lessons on ‘traditional’ music theory (traditional, classical music theory has a habit of stating as rules ideas that are at best mere guidelines). It has been pointed out that in my post about disliking the Beatles I actually referred to two of their solo efforts. Well.. yeah, alright. I’ll justify those choices as best I can: The Traveling Wilburys song and Hard Day’s Night were two examples used to illustrate the same basic point: Their chord choices are boring, and [...] Of course I’m not the only person who thinks experimenting with time signatures is musically interesting. The wonderful world of the internet contains this guitar lessons blog post which contains several examples by the band Symphony X. This is a great post, as it shows you time signatures that are relatively unusual being played by a band [...] In the few months I’ve been writing Songwright, I have rarely touched on lyric writing. This is not likely to change. One of the reasons for this is that there are already plenty of people out there writing about lyrics. Here are two recent posts on other people’s blogs that I thought were interesting and got me [...] John, over at Songwriting Apples has written a post about his ’sound palette,’ the sounds and musical ‘colours’ that go into his songwriting. Interestingly, the first things that spring to mind for him are instruments and instrument combinations: sparse drums, ’soaring’ slide guitar. If I was to list my favourite sound colours it would be things [...] Those of you interested in the business side of music might want to check out the podcast at onlinemusicmarketing.com by Jay Moonah. Songwright.co.uk is mentioned in the lastest episode, as is the podsafe network, which might also be of interest to those of you who want to get your songs onto other people’s podcasts. Jay’s podcast is [...] |
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