Category: Music
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5 Practical Tips For Beginner Songwriters To Embrace
5 Practical Tips For Beginner Songwriters To Embrace Over the years, a common question we’ve been asked by budding songwriters is “What are some of your top tips for beginners?”. […]
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Musical Onomatopoeia – The Secret to Writing Amazing Hooks
Musical Onomatopoeia – The Secret to Writing Amazing Hooks If you’ve ever heard a catchy, relatable hook from a songwriter you like and wondered how you can write like them, […]
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5 Strategies to Ensure You’ll Never Have Another Unfinished Song
5 Strategies to Ensure You’ll Never Have Another Unfinished Song If you’ve ever been stumped when trying to finish a song, understand that you’re not alone. You may feel that […]
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5 Books that Are Songwriter Must-Reads
5 Books that Are Songwriter Must-Reads As professional songwriters, we have collectively read hundreds of books on the art of songwriting. What we want to do in this article is […]
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System #2 to Help You Make Time for Songwriting – Collecting and Organising Ideas
System #2 to Help You Make Time for Songwriting – Collecting and Organising Ideas Songwriting is a fun process. However, it becomes frustrating when you try to sit down to […]
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Lyric Exercise #5 – Power Positions
Lyric Exercise #5 – Power Positions For songwriters, crafting lyrics that captivate and resonate with listeners is both an art and a science. Lyrics have the ability to convey emotions, […]
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How to Use Arpeggios to Spice Up Your Melody
How to Use Arpeggios to Spice Up Your Melody We received a message from one of our Patreon members about how their melodies always feel boring, bland and seem to […]
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Lyric Exercise #4 – Contrasts
Lyric Exercise #4 – Contrasts Contrast is a powerful tool in the songwriter’s arsenal. With it, we can create amazing imagery through combining opposing elements together. In this article, we’ll […]
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A Guide to Finding the Perfect Chords
A Guide to Finding the Perfect Chords It’s very common for songwriters to come up with great lyrics, but then become lost when they reach the stage of finding the […]
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3 Simple Systems to Help You Make Time for Songwriting
3 Simple Systems to Help You Make Time for Songwriting After emailing the over 12,000 people on my mailing list and asking them the question “What is your biggest challenge […]
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Lyric Exercise #3 – Use Specific Imagery
Lyric Exercise #3 – Use Specific Imagery People listen to songs so that they can be transported to a different place. To that aim, it’s important for our lyrics to […]
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Lyric Exercise #2 – Upgrading Verbs
Lyric Exercise #2 – Upgrading Verbs While every aspect of lyric writing is essential, the choice of verbs can make or break a song’s impact. In this blog post, we’ll […]
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10 Essential Chord Progressions for Songwriters
10 Essential Chord Progressions for Songwriters If you’re a songwriter looking for inspiration then look no further! In this article, we take a look at 10 essential chord progressions and […]
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Step #7 of Writing Great Melodies – Write More Melodies
Step #7 of Writing Great Melodies – Write More Melodies The process of composing melodies for your songs doesn’t stop just because you’ve managed to develop one long melodic phrase. […]
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Write a Song Within an Hour
Write a Song Within an Hour A lot of songwriters often talk about how they can’t finish songs. You hear it all the time – tales of abandoned notebooks, lone […]
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Part 3 of The Songwriting Formula – The Song Map
Part 3 of The Songwriting Formula – The Song Map It’s easy to think that once you have a concept and a title, that you’ll be able to plan out […]
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Lyric Exercise #1 – Extending Metaphors
Lyric Exercise #1 – Extending Metaphors A large part of songwriting is creating imagery for our listeners. By painting a vivid enough picture through our lyrics, we can draw our […]
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Part 2 of The Songwriting Formula – The Title
Part 2 of The Songwriting Formula – The Title Songwriters regularly underestimate the power of a song title. Many think that a title is just a way of identifying a […]