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taking the random out of songwriting
so you can write the songs you want to write!
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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!
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…
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 Foundations
5 Songwriting Excuses that Destroy Your Songwriting
Songwriting excuses let you avoid solving your songwriting problems. If your songwriting results aren’t meeting your expectations you need to read this…
3 Songwriting Rhyme Mistakes
If you’ve written lyrics that you think sound cheesy, amateur or embarrassing… fix these 3 common rhyming mistakes to stop using boring or predictable rhymes!
Worst Songwriting Tips Ever
The 5 worst songwriting tips ever, and my answers that will actually help you finish songs you’re proud of… don’t bother with these broken tips…
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
Factory Fresh
My song Factory Fresh, with complete lyrics and an analysis to help you write better songs… Factory Fresh is a social commentary song about our relationship with food.
Write Less, But Say More
Edit your lyrics to focus them… tell the story and evoke emotions in your audience. Everything else is distraction!
Cooking a Better Song
Songwriting is cooking with sound… 14 songwriting tips… learn to taste, test and write better songs in a 5 minute read
Songwriting Psychology
Songwriting: 7 Healthy Side Effects
7 Healthy Side Effects of Songwriting…exploring the healthy benefits of songwriting, including action steps to enhance the effects…
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 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!
Songwriting Productivity
Building Your Songwriting Superpowers
Discover and explore your songwriting superpowers because you can do things that regular people only dream about.
The Most Popular EpicSongWriting Articles of 2018
The 7 most popular EpicSongWriting articles of 2018 and the songwriting lessons I learned from analyzing why these articles were hits…
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….
Video Lessons
So Trumped Up
So Trumped Up is a song about how social conversation has degenerated during the Trump Presidency, includes my song analysis to help you write better songs!
Songwriting Patterns
Songwriting Video Lesson: three frameworks to evaluate and control patterns in your lyrics, melody, chord progressions, arrangement and production.
When is My Song Finished?
Finishing songs… it’s easier to start songs than finish songs. How to avoid the endless song write… and what to do after your song is finished!
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….