When you hear a Julia Michaels song—and you’ve probably heard more of them than you think—they’re almost instantly recognizable. Songwriters…
Why You Should Just Write the Next Song (and when you shouldn’t)
If you’ve been poking around this blog (or just read the name for the website), you understand that we are…
How to Receive and Use Tough Feedback
Feedback is an important part of the songwriting process. Co-writing is a great way of bouncing off ideas and getting…
Top Free and Paid Songwriting Courses to Inspire Your Writing
Free: Future Learn: How to Write Your First Song The University of Sheffield offers this course on Future Learn. For…
Songwriting Exercise: Roll a Dice to Find Your Chords
Sometimes we sit down to write and we’re not sure what we want about. That blank page is very intimidating!…
Song Breakdown: How Maisie Peters Writes a Surprise at the end of “John Hughes Movie”
If you haven’t heard Maisie Peter’s song “John Hughes Movie”, you should definitely listen to that before reading this. The…
The Case for Writing Multiple Songs at Once
When I first started writing songs, I wrote one song at a time until it was finished. This process was…
Classic and Modern Types of Bridge Sections
If you’re a songwriter, you probably have opinions on Bridge sections. Many of us tend to use only a couple…
Songwriting Exercise: Creating Mosaic Rhymes
We know about perfect and imperfect rhymes and how they can make a song sound less predictable. Cliché rhymes are…
Song Breakdown: Julia Micheals Plays with Opposites in “Love is Weird”
Julia Michaels is a brilliant, notable songwriter of today. Her writing has changed the sound of current pop melodies and…
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