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Why Your Song Titles Matter

First featured in Flypaper by Soundfly! Most of the time, a song title is directly taken from the chorus or…

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Why Your Song Titles Matter

First featured in Flypaper by Soundfly! Most of the time, a song title is directly taken from the chorus or…

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Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz

Songwriting Interview: RVBY MY DEAR on the songwriting process for her new song, “Black Moon”

Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz This week, I sat down with Gabbi Coenen and talked about her new release “Black Moon”,…

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How to have that awkward conversation about splits with your co-writer

That conversation about splits in never fun, but it’s really necessary. Splits are how you choose to split the ownership…

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Songwriting Exercise: Twisting Clichés

When we’re writing a new song, it’s common to start with the title, which may later become the hook line…

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Why co-writing is 100% a legitimate form of songwriting

With the backlash towards Damon Albarn this week from what he said about Taylor Swift and co-writing, there has been…

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Write a Song Like… Vance Joy

Vance Joy is one of those songwriters who tends to break all the “rules” of popular songwriting and still manages…

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You Can’t Over-Optimize Your Songwriting Process

Some days (ahem, months) can be a real struggle when it comes to art. There are so many songwriting tools…

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How to Write a Happy Song

It seems that every single songwriter I’ve come across has a lot of difficulty in writing happy songs—myself included! There’s…

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Setting Your Songwriting Goals

The new year is coming and hopefully, you have high prospects for your songwriting. Like any art form, it can…

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