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Featured Content
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!
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 Foundations
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!
17 Broken Songwriting Myths
Songwriting myths try to explain the confusing world of songwriting and the music industry. Learn the truths behind these 17 broken songwriting myths…
How to Finish Your Songs
How to finish your songs… why you lose interest and momentum with your songs and how to fix it. Understanding the emotional stages of songwriting, through the “Emotional Stages of Change”
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
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!
Writing Better Song Rhymes
Stop writing boring and predictable rhymes… Stop fighting with rhyming and make it work for you so your lyrics sound more interesting and songs sound more professional.
13 Songwriting Creativity Blocks
Solving 13 common songwriting creativity blocks… it’s not you, it’s how you’re thinking about songwriting and making it harder for yourself!
Songwriting Psychology
Songwriting Tips You Know But Aren’t Following
Learn why you’re avoiding songwriting by searching for more songwriting tips you know. Kick your songwriting tips addiction and write more songs!
3 Steps to Write Songs Today
Break the procrastination cycle with 3 steps to start you writing songs and making music today… not tomorrow, today!
Mental Toughness for Songwriters
Mental Toughness for Songwriters: perfect your practicing, solve songwriting stagnation and stop stage fright… Review of 10 Minute Toughness by Dr.Jason Selk
Songwriting Productivity
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.
17 Broken Songwriting Myths
Songwriting myths try to explain the confusing world of songwriting and the music industry. Learn the truths behind these 17 broken songwriting myths…
Avoid Lyric Fail
Avoid Lyric Fail… Fix weak lyrics before they happen! Edit properly instead of half writing your songs and calling them “finished”…
Video Lessons
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…
Recording Acoustic Guitar
Setting up and recording acoustic guitar so you sound great in under 5 minutes. Stop wasting time recording bad sounding instrumentals.
The Worst Way to Write a Song
Songwriting can be easier! Almost every songwriter starts writing songs in the worst way possible… learn an alternative way to write better songs!
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 Mark Lorenz
Songwriter Interview with Mark Lorenz… stay true to your voice, finding song ideas and how to promote yourself as an artist and as a songwriter
Songwriter Interview with Shirley Jackson
Songwriter Interview with Shirley Jackson, including: songwriting as cooperation, being open to inspiration and songwriting as transformation and therapy.