Every songwriter knows the feeling. You sit down, pick up the guitar, and three minutes later you’re playing the same four chords you played last week, singing about the same things in the same way. Talk about predictable Then there…
You sit down with your guitar, coffee in hand, ready to write and you find yourself an hour later with two lines you don’t like, a chord progression you’ve played a thousand times before, and a growing urge to go…
Most songwriters treat the inner critic like a problem to be solved. Silence it, outrun it, drown it out with enough enthusiasm and it’ll leave you alone. It won’t and you wouldn’t want it to either. You see, that very…
You’ve finally finished the song and that’s a real thing to feel good about. But something’s bugging you. Maybe a friend gave you feedback that didn’t quite sit right with you. Maybe you just know, in the way songwriters know…
Picture two songwriters. One just signed with a major publisher and had a song placed in a car ad. The other just finished a song about their dad, alone in a bedroom at midnight, and hasn’t shown it to anyone…
When it comes to songwriting and how songs are perceived by the general public, songs with universal themes are the front door. Everyone knows love, loss, and longing, so those songs let a listener walk straight in. But as we…
You know the feeling. You spent weeks on a song and you were sure that this song was going to be the one to break though all the noise. You send it off to a publisher, or pitch it to…
The “tortured artist” archetype is one of the most persistent myths in music. We love the image of the songwriter sequestered in a dimly lit room, waiting for the lightning bolt of inspiration to strike before they can finally pen…
Every songwriter hits a wall sometimes. You sit down with the guitar, open a blank session, or stare at a page of half-finished lines and nothing moves. Sometimes there’s no idea at all. Other times you’ve got plenty of ideas…