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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!
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
What’s the Best Way to Write a Song?
What’s the best way to write a song? Here’s how to figure out the best songwriting process for yourself… they don’t tell you but it’s easier with this help!
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.
Songwriting Tips Don’t Help
We all love songwriting tips, even when most songwriting tips don’t help! Learn to actually improve your songwriting and manage that songwriting tips addiction.
Recent Articles
Songwriting Games-Singing Games
Your singing ability limits your songwriting! Use singing games to build you singing flexibility and control so you write better songs….
Lyric Writing Games
Lyric Writing Games… stop fighting with your lyrics, play lyric writing games to build your lyric skills and find ideas to use in your songs…
Brainstorming Games
Songwriting games with Brainstorming: smash songwriting blocks forever… no more wondering what to write or what to say, just write!
Lyric Writing
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…
Truth About Songwriting Inspiration
Songwriting inspiration isn’t what you really need. It’s not a magical cure or secret solution to songwriting problems… here’s the songwriting truth you need to hear!
Focus Your Songwriting Super Powers
Learn to focus your songwriting super powers… it’s not enough to start writing, you need to keep yourself writing and stay on track to finish your songs!
Songwriting Psychology
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…
Truth About Songwriting Inspiration
Songwriting inspiration isn’t what you really need. It’s not a magical cure or secret solution to songwriting problems… here’s the songwriting truth you need to hear!
7 Pareto Songwriting Hacks
7 Songwriting Hacks you can use to improve your songs and songwriting results… inspired by Pareto’s Principle, the 80/20 Rule.
Songwriting Productivity
Tuning Your Songwriting Tools
Get your songwriting in tune, by tuning your gear, your ear and yourself… stop making songwriting harder when it can be so easy to make it easier!
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…
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!
Video Lessons
Emoji Girl
Emoji Girl, a song about creating a relationship with someone distracted by social media, includes lyrics & analysis to help you write better 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.
Releasing Tense Guitar Arms
Stop hurting yourself playing your guitar. Play faster and easier by releasing tension in your freeing arm and avoid future injuries.
Songwriter Interviews
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 Chris Kirby
Chris Kirby, songwriter interview: on co-writing, songwriting outside your comfort zone and building a solid songwriting reputation…
1k Listens Without Really Trying
A songwriting success story, over 1000 listens in 2 days with a picture video on FaceBook: no publicity, no YouTube channel, no email list and no website….