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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!
Songwriting Reference Tracks
Learning and improving your songwriting by studying the songs you love by using reference tracks… don’t ask the internet, figure out your own answers!
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
Song is Haiku
How to fix stuck songs… your song isn’t a novel or story, it’s haiku. Don’t get stuck by overwriting and trying to say too much in one song. Learn action steps to solve your stuck songs.
Reasons Why You Want to Quit Songwriting… and How to Solve Them
Songwriting seems like it should be easy… so, many people try to figure out songwriting on their own, leading to a struggle, either you figure out songwriting or you quit.
Lyrics: Sensation Imagery
Make your lyrics more interesting with vivid sensation imagery… people understand the world through their senses, use this truth to write stronger lyrics!
Recent Articles
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.
Building Your Songwriting Superpowers
Discover and explore your songwriting superpowers because you can do things that regular people only dream about.
Setting Songwriting Goals You’ll Actually Achieve
When you’re creating goals to push yourself and your songwriting three common mistakes will cause you to fail… solve these 3 mistakes so you achieve and surpass your goals!
Lyric Writing
Building Better Songs
How to know the story of your songs, the emotional journey in your song, and why your audience wants to hear you so you can write and perform better songs….
Lyrics: Sensation Imagery
Make your lyrics more interesting with vivid sensation imagery… people understand the world through their senses, use this truth to write stronger lyrics!
Exotic Bean
Exotic Bean, an original song with complete lyrics and analysis to help you write better songs… how I suffered from coffee withdrawal while travelling….
Songwriting Psychology
Brainstorming Games
Songwriting games with Brainstorming: smash songwriting blocks forever… no more wondering what to write or what to say, just write!
7 Alternate Ways to Write Songs
7 different ways to explore songwriting ideas, because songwriting tips aren’t enough… sometimes you’re stuck, not your song!
Solving Your Songwriting Excuses
Stop blaming songwriter’s block and find solutions to your songwriting excuses… find your songwriting magic, rediscover the fun and start writing again…
Songwriting Productivity
Setting Songwriting Goals You’ll Actually Achieve
When you’re creating goals to push yourself and your songwriting three common mistakes will cause you to fail… solve these 3 mistakes so you achieve and surpass your goals!
Brainstorming Games
Songwriting games with Brainstorming: smash songwriting blocks forever… no more wondering what to write or what to say, just write!
Songwriting Royalties Explained
Songwriting Royalties and Mechanical Royalties basics explained in language that any songwriter can understand… how the music business works…
Video Lessons
Setting Up Your Home Studio Recording Gear
How to set up and connect all your studio gear by following the audio signal chain… start recording in your own home studio and solve recording problems.
Turning Your Song Ideas into Lyrics
If you’ve ever started turning your song idea into lyrics, only to have them vanish as you try to get them down… this is why it happens and how you solve it…
5 Destructive Songwriting Myths
Why make songwriting more difficult? Learn to recognize and solve these false and destructive songwriting myths!
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…
Songwriting Sprint
How to write more in a songwriting sprint! Ian Sherwood had more than 40 songs ready to record for his album… why he took time off to write more songs,,,
Songwriter Interview with Ian Sherwood
Ian Sherwood talks about his ideal songwriting process, how to write better songs and his best advice for new songwriters…