Mediant chords, also known as minor iii chords, are criminally under-utilized.
Ok, it's my opinion that they're underutilized. But a Hook Theory study did show that it's the least common of...
What on earth are borrowed chords? And, should I care about them? Are the actually useful? If so, how do I use them?
In this video, we're breaking down what borrowed chords are and talk about some...
How do we make our ii chords more interesting? Sure, we could write songs with plain old major and minor triads, but the world of music opens up so much more when we figure out how to get more out...
How do we make songwriting a habit and not just another hobby? That's what we're talking about in this video, based on advice from James Clear's book Atomic Habits.
If we're really...
Do songwriters need to make songwriting a habit? Of course! In this video, we're talking about the reasons why it's important for songwriters to make a habit of songwriting.
Songwriters often have a style of writing, but often we tend to assume that the way we have written songs is the best way for us to write. But sometimes we need to expand ourselves a bit and try...
Sometimes we seem to hit a wall. Our songs don't seem to be getting better and may even be getting worse. We feel like we've started to write worse versions of a song we've already written. We...
Most songwriters don't seem to even consider that there are other styles of songwriting outside of their own. But leveraging some different songwriting styles can be massively helpful as they all...
In this video, I'm sharing my first impressions of Half Shy's new Lyric Workbook.
Songwriters often don't even consider that there are other songwriting styles outside of their own. Much less that there may be another songwriting style out there that might be a better fit for...
What does John Mayer have to say about songwriting? In this video, we break down a clip of John Mayer talking about songwriting and see what wisdom we can glean from what he has to say.
Making sure your lyrics rhyme for your song is overrated.
Yes, I said it.
No, some arbitrary rhyme scheme is not more important than your lyrics communicating exactly what they mean to.
No,...
