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Featured Content
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!
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
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….
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”
Songwriting Advice: 21 Things They Don’t Tell You
Songwriting advice everyone should know… but they don’t tell you. Professional songwriters don’t consciously think about it and assyne beginners already know this…
Recent Articles
3 Chord Progression Songwriting Games: Writing Chord Progressions Using Only 3 Chords
Songwriters, let’s play a songwriting game! Here are 3 quick games to help you explore and write chord progressions, even if you only know how to play 3 chords!
Songwriting Copyright
Songwriting copyright, the principles of copyright for songwriters… learn when and how to register your song copyright and how it protects your songs.
Songwriting Royalties Explained
Songwriting Royalties and Mechanical Royalties basics explained in language that any songwriter can understand… how the music business works…
Lyric Writing
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”
Let Your Lyrics Breathe
How to save the song you’re writing, when you don’t know why it sucks and you feel like trashing it….
Brainstorming
6 Minutes that will change your songwriting forever. Want to have more song title ideas and song lyric ideas than you need? The struggle ends now…
Songwriting Psychology
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!
What if Nobody Likes My Songs?
Solve your songwriting fear… it’s why you fail to finish songs, hesitate to release your songs and where your negative self talk comes from…
5 Destructive Songwriting Myths
Why make songwriting more difficult? Learn to recognize and solve these false and destructive songwriting myths!
Songwriting Productivity
Make Songwriting Easier
Make songwriting easier by solving the songwriting problems you create for yourself… includes action steps you can follow for your songwriting success!
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
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!
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…
Do I Have Enough Songwriting Talent?
Songwriting talent isn’t as important as you think! Find out what you really need to stop feeling overwhelmed so you can write songs you’re proud of…
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!
Songwriter Interviews
Songwriter Interview with Shirley Jackson
Songwriter Interview with Shirley Jackson, including: songwriting as cooperation, being open to inspiration and songwriting as transformation and therapy.
Collaboration Takes You Higher
Musical collaboration will get you to success faster than working on your own. Step outside your comfort zone to create great things…this story proves it!
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…