What is the Lydian mode?

The short version is that it's the mode based off of the 4th scale degree of a Major Key and it's a mode that's even brighter and more heavenly sounding than a Major Key. ...

In this video, you'll learn the single thing you need to know in order to figure out every single note in every minor key. Let's talk about it!

What are Modes in music? And how are they useful for songwriters? Are modes different than keys or scales?

We talk about all that in this video and dive into an overview of the general sounds of t...

Let's talk about the one simple way to figure out all of the notes for any and all major keys. Whether C Major, F# Major, Bb Major or any other major key, this one method will allow you to figure o...

In this video, we're going to talk about 3 more destructive songwriting myths you might believe! As songwriters, it's important we don't fall for myths that will hold back our songwriting! Let's ta...

Songwriting myths can and often do get in our way on our quest to writing killer songs. Whether we create fake rules for ourselves that make our songs worse or don't try things that would help our ...

A great way to improve your melodies is to test them before you consider them finished. 

One of my favorite melody tests is what I like to call either the "A cappella test" or the "Candle Test". 

“I love songwriting, I just don’t have enough time”

Is that you?

Do you find yourself going weeks or months without songwriting?

Or are you someone who is so busy that you’re already operating o...

When is it too late to learn songwriting?

CAN songwriting be learned?

It’s too late to learn songwriting when you’re dead.

And, great news! You’re reading this so you aren’t dead. Go you. You’re...

 How can constraints actually help our songwriting creativity?

Well, you might have experienced something like what I did in school.

They take something creative and then rip almost every fiber o...

I don’t know about you, but I love a good epic melody.
 

I love when I get goosebumps and feel significantly emotionally moved by a emotive, huge melody.

And, here’s the thing, it doesn’t have to ...

When it comes to songwriting, there are plenty of relatively obvious skills and sub-skills that are involved.

We know that we need to learn how to write killer melodies, meaningful lyrics, and int...