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I am totally tickled to have co-written a song, ‘Fruit’, that has just been released by Australian pop artist, Sayah. Working with Sayah was alchemy – seeing an idea come to life is a special kind of magic. The song was produced and co-written by Taka Perry, who is a wizard space genius. Seeing him…
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I so often get asked whether it’s really possible to teach someone how to write a song. There still seems to be a mysterious veil of magic and witchcraft about it, that is very fuelled by interviews with songwriters talking about channeling the muse. It turns out that songwriting is really like anything else. You…
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I teach a poetry class for Berklee Online. The course culminates in the writing of a sonnet. I’ve always loved the sonnet form. That tight little couplet at the end is like a bow on a birthday present. In the week before the end of the class, just as lockdown was easing in Sydney around…
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Giving and receiving meaningful feedback on your creative work is probably the single most important thing to actually developing your practice and seeing your work improve. Psychologist Anders Ericsson, who famously inspired the idea of the ’10 thousand hours rule’ for developing expert performance level at anything, cites ‘meaningful, specific, and detailed feedback’ as one…
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Hi friends, A new term of my Songwriting 1 course at the Sydney Conservatorium Open Academy kicks of on October 17! Get your creative juices flowing, and join me there!!