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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 [...] How can you create tension using the rhythmic ideas in your song? Recently I wrote about Gary Ewer’s great post on tension in songwriting. His post is a list of tension and release related elements in songwriting – you can find more detail on each of them elsewhere on his site (and on this one!) – but [...] Gary Ewer has a great post on tension and release in songwriting: What keeps a listener listening? If you can’t answer that you’ll be relegated to the dust-heap of music history, along with all the other songs that listeners got bored with. The answer to the question? It’s tension, then release, that keep listeners listening. It’s a [...] Chad Sharp has a blog. I just discovered it. I approve. This week I exchanged a few emails with a singer-songwriter named Shannon Hurley. She recently moved from LA to Nashville, and as a consequence her songwriting became less country. I know, that sounds counterintuitive. I’ll let her explain: Shannon: My songwriting changed in the most unexpected way. Instead of wanting to fit into the country [...] This morning on the today program I heard an interview with Nick Troop, a songwriter who claimed to be doing a psychological study of songwriting to investigate psychological health or… something. A brief investigation took me to Nick’s websites, and the first thing to point out, as Nick does, is that his analysis is not [...] Great post over at Martin Austwick’s blog: Song pet hates #1 Martin says his first pet hate in songwriting is rhyming. Specifically: 1. Rhyme is not a substitute for meaning My own pet hates are Beatles rip-offs and old [...] Disclaimer – this isn’t an advert, Gary Ewer doesn’t know I’m writing this. I just like his blog. Seriously, Gary Ewer’s ‘Essential Secrets of Songwriting’ is a great blog, with some fantastic posts on the technical side of songwriting. Recent posts that I think are particularly useful include: ‘The Tonic Note – Be careful How You [...] In my last newsletter (which you can recieve by entering your email into the ‘join the mailing list’ box on the right of the screen) I asked if anyone else on my mailing list was taking part in the 50/90 songwriting challenge. One of the people who emailed in reply was Jeff Charreaux of the [...] I just stumbled across this video, via this post. It’s from this website. First off, let me make clear that I have a very low opinion of sales pages like this one. I know they’ve been shown to work, that they’re ‘good marketing,’ but I really don’t like them. However, don’t take that us an opinion of the [...] |
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