Do you think that knowing how to read and write sheet music is what music theory is? Because that's at all what music theory is!
If you thought that music theory wasn't useful for songwriting, it ...
What questions should we be asking ourselves as we are songwriting? Let's talk about some good questions to ask ourselves to make sure our songs and lyrics are on the right track!
Suspended chords can be a powerful addition to your songwriting chord toolbox. Not only can they be used as a fantastic transitional chord, but they can be some of the most adaptable and interestin...
A simple, yet effective way to make your song much more harmonically interesting is simply adding more types of chords to your toolbox.
In this video, we're going to talk about what added tone cho...
An important part of the creation process is to know when to stop editing and workshopping what you've done and call your song done.
Otherwise we can tinker on our songs indefinitely and never f...
We often will rightly spend a ton of time making sure our choruses are absolutely killer.
What we can forget when we're doing this is that our verses are more than capable of ruining our song- ren...
Iterative lyric writing is probably my single favorite lyric writing discovery. It actually came from applying what I learned being a software developer to lyric writing!
So, if you want a compreh...
In a world where it seems like every artist is suing, getting sued, or both, you may be worried about your drum beat that may seem just a bit too similar to another drum beat that already exists.
...If you want to be able to dive into songwriting and, specifically, songwriting EFFICIENTLY right NOW without having to learn a bunch of music theory, this is the video for you.
In this video I bre...
So maybe you don't want to have to learn music theory, but you're also sick of songwriting taking a while because you keep hitting notes or playing chords that just don't sound quite right.
The re...
What on earth is a songwriting funnel? Why is it an important thing to understand about songwriting? That's what we're talking about in this video!
In this video, we talk about 3 different ways we can ruin our lyrics. Obviously we don't want to do that, so it's important to know some pitfalls to not fall into!
Let's talk about it!
