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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…
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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…
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Language
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Metaphor
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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…
Creative Practice
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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…
Creative Practice
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How to put your inner critic in its place
6 December 2022
And do your creative work this year As writers, creators, artists, and musicians, we all have the same…
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New online course: The Art of Co-Writing & Collaboration
18 November 2022
We have just released (as in, literally JUST published) our second online mini course: The Art of Co-Writing and…
Chorus Writing
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Lyric Writing
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Wisdom from Songwriters
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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Songwriting Tip: Quick Start to Using Modes
1 November 2022
There’s more to life than the major key and the minor key. I’ve been thinking about this a…
Habits of Success
Melody Writing
Music
Music Theory for Songwriters
Songs I Love
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What I’m listening to and why.
18 October 2022
I got a phone call from my friend Benny the other night (Benny, who I make videos with…
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How to write a COMPLETE SONG from just 2 NOTES!
17 October 2022
In this video, we look at how you can take just two notes, and through a series of…
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Your 7 SONGWRITING SUPERPOWERS and how to write great lyrics with them!
16 October 2022
What if we have 7 senses instead of 5 … and what if they are actually our songwriting…
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What John Mayer taught me, personally.
10 October 2022
In 2008, I had the unbelievably good fortune to spend a whole week with John Mayer, talking about…
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The most unusual thing about the Sam Smith song ‘Unholy’
6 October 2022
What is it about this song UNHOLY from Sam Smith and Kim Petras? Is it the melody, the…
Music Theory for Songwriters
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Music Theory Fundamentals–Major, Minor, and Diminished Chords
24 August 2022
A little bit of music theory goes a long way – in this video, I explain the difference…