SC Exercise: Write For An Artist
This exercise focuses on writing for another artist. You’ll work through some simple steps to (1) find an artist that works with...
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SC Exercise: Turning Poems Into Songs
Turning poems into songs sounds like something that’s pretty easy to do. After all, the words are there. The rhyme is there. The...
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Giving Song Feedback Like A Pro
If you’re part of a songwriting group, one of your activities is probably getting and giving feedback on songs. And, one of the most...
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Song Shapes Exercise For Story Streaming Songs
If you’ve ever been in a high school English class, you’ve studied song shapes. You know, the introduction of characters,...
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Write From Inspiration But Need Discipline?
Waiting for inspiration to hit doesn’t always lead to a high volume, or even steady flow, of songs. We recently got a question in...
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What’s Furniture In Lyrics?
You’ve probably gotten song critiques that suggest you need more furniture in lyrics to give the song a stronger sense of showing...
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Know Your Strengths To Create Goals
We’ve all heard it: “Set goals to achieve success.” But, for many of use, songwriting is one of many things in our...
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Change Perspective But Keep Your Point Of View
Perspective isn’t a common songwriting topic. Most songwriting conversations revolve around Point of View (POV), but there’s...
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5 Steps To Organize Your Song Files
It happens to every songwriter. The business of music. Your focus is on writing songs, not organizing your song files! Why bother? But,...
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Targeting Your Song Pitches To A Cut
If you’re writing for someone else to cut your songs and don’t perform live, you’ll need to know how to sell what...
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Music Business Made Easy!
If you’re trying to make it in the new world order of independent music, this is the music business book for you. I’ve used...
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Creating Effective Similes In Songs
Similes in songs can take a ho-hum lyric and turn it into a “wow!” lyric. The magic of a simile is that it allows you to use a...
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Amy Speace Song Critiques
Amy Speace takes a look at several songs submitted for the American Songwriter Magazine songwriting contest. Songwriters were given the...
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5 Steps To Song Creation Success
How can we make songwriting easier? Change your perspective before you start writing! Songs are really just scenes strung together –...
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4 Steps To Connect Your Song Scenes
Here are four easy steps to help you connect the verses in your song – or song scenes! Following them will help make your song more...
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Pop Songs: Music & Melody
The below is taken from a chat board that is long since gone, and was part of a much larger post string. I’ve aggregated the...
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6 Essential Songwriting Books On Melody
Melodies are the messaging highway of your song. They help maintain the interest of your listener (like scenery along the route), give...
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6 Essential Songwriting Books On Rhyming
Rhyming lines is a fundamental component of songwriting and song craft. Doing it in a way that doesn’t sound contrived or...
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Tip To Match Line Length In Verses
Line length is a key element of any song. Without knowing how long your lines are, you risk making your verse melody lines different....
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Song Outline Worksheet: Stripes
Brandy Clark’s “Stripes” One of the things I’m not so good at is the song’s story. I tend to get a little...
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Learn The Parts Of A Song For Success
Updated 2/20/19 The parts of a song are important to understand because they are the skeleton you’ll drape words and music on it to...
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Song Key Conversion Site
There are a few sites on the web that allow you to either copy and paste the chords, or find the song in their library, then select...
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Nashville Number System Made Easy
If you’ve recorded in Nashville, you’ve run into the Nashville Number System. While I could explain it here, there are quite a...
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Setting A Scene With A Moment
In addition to co-writing Trace Adkins hits “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” Jamey Johnson won a CMA Award for co-writing George...
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