From “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” website: For your song to be successful, it needs to capture the listeners’ attention right away, and really make an impact. If it doesn’t, it won’t sell, and it’s as simple as that. There are three aspects of a song that rise above the others in importance: the […]
From “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” website: Any melody you come up with will be able to be harmonized in a variety of different ways. And that’s a good thing. It would be a very boring exercise if there was only one possibility for matching chords with melody notes. In the previous article we came […]
From “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” website: In the previous article, I discussed strong and fragile chord progressions, and the need to have both in your songs. But how do you actually choose the chords? How do you know which chords go with the key of your song? And how to you get them […]
Written by Gary Ewer, Senior Instructor, Dalhousie University, from “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” website. • Follow Gary on Twitter • Good songs sell! Check out “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6 e-book bundle – available now at a 50% savings! ________________________________ A good chord progression is like a piece of land that you’re planning to build your house […]
From “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” website. It’s nice when you’re inspired to write a great song, but good songs and and should happen even without being particularly inspired. For many, writing a song seems like some sort of magic: you just sit and think for a moment, and chords, melodies and lyrics just appear, […]
