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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 [...] Iron Maiden are one of my favourite bands, and one of the most influential heavy metal bands ever. A great post over at ‘Troll in the Corner’ got me thinking about them, and listening to some of my favourite Maiden songs. Fear of the Dark, the title track from their 1992 album, the last before Bruce [...] So how was your February? Mine was not nearly as productive as I thought it was goiong to be. I signed up to Febraury Album Writing Month, got all geared up to write, and then what did I achieve? Five songs, one of which wasn’t really new at all. In fact it wasn’t even a song. Seven [...] Is originality possible in songwriting? over the last few months I’ve been having regular songwriting sessions with my sixth form students. They’re a heavy metal band – a genre that has an interesting mix of originality and copycat songwriting. Like any other genre, over time you can see clear innovations – metal has pushed modal and chromatic [...] I need your help! I’ve been thinking of putting together a list of songwriting dos and don’ts. To do this, I’m really interesting in getting together a list of songwriting clichés. What do I mean? I mean either a cliché that other people use all the time, like rhyming ‘together’ with ‘forever’, or shifting the key up a [...] Welcome to the first in a series of articles in which I’ll write a song ‘by numbers’. What do I mean by that? I’m going to write a song as an exercise to illustrate a lot of common songwriting points. I’m going to go through it step by step, one element at a time. Now, songwriting is [...] Following on from my last post, here is the second installment from ‘Worksheets for the Songwriting Guitarist’. The idea for it came from this post over at songwritingapples.com. It’s about learning new chord shapes in a new tuning, but even if you stick to standard tunings I think this could be useful. The Chord Diary You’ve probably seen [...] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX--7gFHkU0&feature=related] There are chord progressions that get used over and over again. So often, that you already know them. Even if you’ve never thought about it, once you’ve had it pointed out, you will recognise them. The purpose of this post is to show you a few of the more common ones. I’ll show you them in [...] A little while ago, I was interviewed by Sean McGaughey for his For the Sake of the Song podcast. He asked me why I started Songwright, and why I was blogging about the theory and structures we use in songwriting. Despite this site having been up since last summer, until Sean asked me, I hadn’t really [...] “All the posts about changing key and arranging instruments are useful, but before I start doing that, don’t I need a song to arrange? How do I get things written!” There’s no point worrying about the bassline, the drop chorus or the guitar solo if you haven’t written anything yet. This post should give you a [...] |
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