These posts will delve into ideas that I have been kicking around for several decades about songwriting.
I’ve written several hundred songs and feel that it is one of my strengths.
Just like playing guitar, performing piano in public, and singing while accompanying myself, I have had no formal or informal instruction in songwriting.
I guess that makes me extremely qualified or extremely unqualified to write on this topic. That’s up to you.
What I am able to do in these areas is the result of my combined educational experiences as well as striving to constantly pay attention to staying in the musical moment and documenting those moments in music and words.
There is no one way to write a song.
That said, there are some universal questions we can ask ourselves to inform the decisions we will make in the process of creating a song.
Along with those queries, there are simple exercises and etudes that can get the ball rolling.
Let’s get started!
I’ve written several hundred songs and feel that it is one of my strengths.
Just like playing guitar, performing piano in public, and singing while accompanying myself, I have had no formal or informal instruction in songwriting.
I guess that makes me extremely qualified or extremely unqualified to write on this topic. That’s up to you.
What I am able to do in these areas is the result of my combined educational experiences as well as striving to constantly pay attention to staying in the musical moment and documenting those moments in music and words.
There is no one way to write a song.
That said, there are some universal questions we can ask ourselves to inform the decisions we will make in the process of creating a song.
Along with those queries, there are simple exercises and etudes that can get the ball rolling.
Let’s get started!
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