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Featured Content
Daily Songwriting
Write songs consistently… no more “I don’t have time” excuses! Know what you’ll write about before you sit down, drop into the writing flow instantly and find the joy in songwriting again!
Create Your Songwriting Practice Routine
How to practice songwriting, learn to create your own customized songwriting practice routine to focus your efforts and maximize your songwriting results!
How to Write a Song Chorus
How to write a song chorus, learn to go from “I don’t know what to write about” to “Check this out!” You don’t have to figure out songwriting on your own…
Songwriting Foundations
Why Your Lyrics Sound Cheesy
You’ve written lyrics but they sound cheesy and amateur. Listen, it’s normal and totally fixable, so let’s level up and fix your amateur lyrics.
Song Structure: How to Write and Entire Song
How to finish a song and write a complete song from beginning to end. Where to put your verses, chorus, pre-chorus and bridge so you can finish your songs.
Why Songwriting Tips Don’t Work!
We all love songwriting tips… but most songwriting tips don’t work. Instead of wasting more time watching more songwriting tips videos, learn why songwriting tips rarely work and what you can do to actually learn how to write songs!
Recent Articles
The Number 1 Most Common Songwriting Mistake
Don’t feel bad, every songwriter’s made this mistake at some point…starting to write lyrics before you’ve decided on the big picture for your song!
Write the Songs You Want to Write
Are you writing the songs you want to write? When your musical intuition fails your song fails… unless you know how to craft the song you want to write…
Seizing Songwriting Opportunities
Don’t miss out on or waste musical opportunities… seizing songwriting opportunities takes some planning. Learn how to be ready for opportunities before they happen…
Lyric Writing
Songwriting Games
Songwriting games… a better way to find the fun and beat songwriter’s block. Don’t smash your guitar or beat your head against your keyboard… play a game!
How to Write a Pre-Chorus
Learn how to write a pre-chorus so you build a bigger chorus they will sing along with you, and spin a story that keeps them listening right to the end…
Why Do Songs Rhyme?
Why songs rhyme, how your audience interacts with the rhymes you choose, rhyme’s effect on your listener’s experience so you take rhyming to the next level.
Songwriting Psychology
Do It Anyway
Find out why you aren’t advancing your songwriting… why you don’t do what you know you need to do, be your best and to write the songs you know you can.
Songwriting When You Don’t Feel Like It
How to write when you don’t feel like songwriting, stop struggling with your songwriting motivation… inspiration happens after you start: here’s how!
Fearless Songwriting
Fearless Songwriting… how your life could be different without fear! How to challenge yourself despite the fear so you get everything you want out of life!
Songwriting Productivity
What’s Your Songwriting Why?
Figuring out your songwriting why. Understanding the reasons you write songs and how it’s important for creating, achieving songwriting goals and self-motivation!
Songwriting in Self-Isolation
7 Activities to stay sane and keep songwriting during self-isolation… the world just went sideways but you can improve and thrive instead of just surviving
Accidental Songwriting Lessons
Songwriting lessons: mistakes happen, life gets in the way of your plans. It’s not the problems you face but what you learn from them that is important!
Video Lessons
3 Easy Ways to Fail at Songwriting
3 Easy Ways to Fail at Songwriting, and how to avoid them so you can write the songs you want to write…
Mixing with Automation
Finalizing your mix with automation, level up your mix by programming changes that add an extra dimension and extra interest for your audience!
Legend in My Mind
Legend in My Mind explains, but doesn’t excuse, the ridiculous behaviour of some men towards women, especially online… ladies you know who I’m talking about!
Songwriter Interviews
15 Million Views
Ever dream of releasing a viral video? Keith Mullins, guitarist, singer and songwriter, got that wish, he explains how he did it and why the video went viral in this interview…
Songwriter Interview with Chris Kirby
Chris Kirby, songwriter interview: on co-writing, songwriting outside your comfort zone and building a solid songwriting reputation…