Can Listening to Old Songs Help You Write New Ones?

If you only listen to today’s music, you’re listening to only a tiny percentage of music that can be helping you as a songwriter. ____________ “Your songwriting ebooks really opened my eyes to writing songs, and gave me all the songwriting info I was looking for. You can find many things on the Internet that […]

Taking a Hook and Creating a Complete Song

If you’ve got a short, catchy hook, here’s what you can do to find the rest of the song. ___________________ Download “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6-ebook bundle, and discover the crucial principles of great songwriting. ___________________ Most songwriters have a large collection of song snippets stored away — ideas that sound good but that never […]

How Do I Know What Key My Song Is In?

Identifying the key makes the task of choosing chords a lot easier, and a lot faster. Download “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 10-eBook Bundle, and find out why good songs become hits, and what you can do to improve the quality of your own songwriting. How do you know what the key of a song is, and how […]

Songwriting: 5 Tips for Targeting the Younger Market

Good songs can go completely unnoticed if you’re missing your target audience. ____________ Download “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6-eBook Bundle, and increase your song’s HIT potential. _____________ There’s a common expression that finds its way into virtually every walk of life: it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. In songwriting, it has a very real and practical […]

7 Symptoms of Songwriter’s Block, and What To Do About Them

The first step in curing writer’s block is recognizing these 7 basic symptoms. ___________________ Download “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6-ebook bundle, and open your eyes to the principles of great songwriting. ___________________ Writer’s block makes any songwriter miserable, and so preventing it is enormously important. I’ve written often on this blog about the basics of […]

When Verse and Chorus Use the Same Chords

Songs that use one progression throughout can work, but there are things to keep in mind. ____________ Download “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6-eBook Bundle, and increase your song’s HIT potential. _____________ Most of the time, a verse will use a different chord progression from the one used in a chorus. And while verse progressions can be a little […]