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14-Day Songwriting Challenge: DAY 1
14 January 2023
#1. Getting past the rust. Write literally the most cliched lyric you can think of. Really squeeze that…
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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up with Great Song Lyric Ideas—#3: Twisting Cliches
13 December 2022
Clichés are everywhere. They are encoded into the way we think and express ourselves in such a pervasive…
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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up with Great Song Lyric Ideas—#2: Metaphor Collisions
8 December 2022
This exercise is one of my all-time favorites. It is the fastest way to show yourself that you…
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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Lyric Ideas—#1: Sense Writing.
7 December 2022
In this series, I’ll go through my all-time Top 5 Exercises for generating lyric ideas, whether I’ve got…
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Why the title of your song is so important
15 November 2022
When we are talking about ‘ideas’ in songs, it’s helpful to draw this distinction: There is the ‘big…
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Writing better lyrics with metaphor magic
12 August 2022
In this video, I show you how to write songs—and specifically lyrics—like Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and John…
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14 June 2022
Starting with loops is one of the most enjoyable and effective ways to spark new ideas and breathe…
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Examples of Sense Writing
1 January 2022
The first exercise I run in any lyric writing class is called ‘Sense Writing,’ which is essentially the…
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The Best Method for Writing a Good Song
11 August 2021
From a recent interview with John Mayer: “Whenever I want to write a big song, I can’t. And…
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120 Sense Writing Prompts
17 June 2021
If you’re already familiar with Sense Writing (aka Object Writing), feel free to skip ahead to the prompts…
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Lyric Writing Masterclass March 16 2020
10 March 2020
Can songwriting actually be taught? Can your lyrics actually improve, or are you just born Bob Dylan? Author…
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Steal Like a Songwriter
16 September 2019
The most effective way I write songs is to immerse myself in songwriters. I like to remind myself…
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Creativity as a physical act
2 September 2019
At the beginning of this year, I joined the gym. Again. I was more optimistic about it this…
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Ryan Adams: Let Your Ego Come Out to Play
8 February 2017
I love this video of Ryan Adams revealing his daily songwriting method, that he calls ‘Stacks’. It basically…
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Driving Around the Road Cones: Two Easy Strategies for Moving Beyond the First Verse
28 July 2016
Almost all songwriters I know experience a type of road block in the process of writing songs. Paradoxically,…