Every songwriter knows what songwriter’s block is and has probably experienced at least once in their career. I however, like the way Amanda Patterson frames songwriter’s block it in a recent Writers Write article, 10 Ways To Get Out Of…
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” – Robert Henri Painter Robert Henri said this over a century ago, but it might be the most useful thing a songwriter could…
You finish a verse, play it back, and the question arrives before the last chord has faded: is this song any good? Most songwriters know that moment well. It feels like quality control but more often, it’s the very thing…
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…