Most songwriter work intuitively
so they can't explain it to you...
At EpicSongWriting,
I teach intentional strategies
taking the random out of songwriting
so you can write the songs you want to write!
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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!
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
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!
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…
Basic Rhyme Schemes
Getting started with rhyme schemes… learn what rhyme schemes are in songs, why rhyme schemes are used and how to use rhyme schemes in your own songs.
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
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…
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….
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…
Songwriting Psychology
Finish More Songs
Finish more of your songs with this simple songwriting hack… learn how to complete what you start instead of starting songs that you never finish!
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 Problems are Opportunities
Improve your songwriting by focusing on the hidden opportunities in any “problem”… focus on what you want instead of what you don’t want!
Songwriting Productivity
Using Songwriting Criticism Constructively
How to use songwriting criticism so it is constructive instead of destructive… and recognizing and dealing with negativity so it makes you stronger!
Avoid Lyric Fail
Avoid Lyric Fail… Fix weak lyrics before they happen! Edit properly instead of half writing your songs and calling them “finished”…
Songwriting: 7 Healthy Side Effects
7 Healthy Side Effects of Songwriting…exploring the healthy benefits of songwriting, including action steps to enhance the effects…
Video Lessons
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…
Recording DI Guitar into Your DAW
Stop struggling with your memory and your recording software! How to record your electric guitar DI (direct input) to capture your best song ideas…
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…
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…
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….
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…