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Songwriting prompt of the week
12 March 2023
Here is the 3rd (of 4) songwriting prompts for the Songwriting Groups I run (if you want more…
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Top 5 Songwriting Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Ideas: #5—Chorus Writing Prompts
6 March 2023
What a Chorus is not I have some important news about a Chorus—news that took me way too…
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Songwriting Prompt of the Week
19 February 2023
Today is the second fortnight of the Songwriting Groups I run (if you want more info on the…
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Free eBook: The 14-Day Songwriting Challenge
19 February 2023
Get a free copy of the 14-Day Songwriting Challenge—a series of daily writing prompts designed to take less…
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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Lyric Ideas: #4—Metaphor Sense Writing
17 February 2023
Metaphor Sense Writing is a combination of Exercise #1 (Sense Writing) and #2 (Metaphor Collisions). It’s a way…
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20 Songwriting Prompts
8 February 2023
Wanna know how to write a song? Start with one of these 20 songwriting prompts that will kickstart…
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge: DAY 4
16 January 2023
#4. Listen deeply. This task is excerpted from the wonderful book, ‘The Art of Noticing,’ by Rob Walker:…
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge: DAY 3
15 January 2023
#3. A list. This poem is unbelievable. Listen to it, the whole way through (listen to the recording…
Music Theory for Songwriters
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge: DAY 2
15 January 2023
#2. Starting in motion. Write a verse (with lyrics and melody). Instead of I V vi IV (the…
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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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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…