The 5 Pillars Of The Songwriting Process
A process is defined as “… a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular goal.” As for a songwriting process, that goal is of course the completion of a song from start to finish. Songs…
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Songwriter, Musician, Producer & Blogger
Corey Stewart Online
Songwriter, Musician, Producer & Blogger
Category Songwriting
All About Songwriting
Your Life As One Continuous Songwriting Process
As songwriters, we need to be eternally vigilant to any opportunity that might arise which enables us to replenish our repository of songwriting ideas. When we talk about a songwriting process though, we generally talk about engaging in a set…
My Lyrical Experiments With ChatGPT
In a previous post I wrote about my fascination with artificial intelligence (AI) and how it could either be a help or a hindrance to my songwriting process. When I wrote that post back in October 2022, I was really…
Songwriting – A Great Way To Experience Life
To increase your ability to generate songwriting ideas, it’s necessary to increase your life experience, and that means getting out of your comfort zone and embracing what life has to offer you. Imagine having the confidence to fully experience your life…
Covers VS Interpretations – The 3 Main Differences
As I’m now getting ready to play live again, I need to remind myself that I don’t ever want to fall back into the trap of just playing covers for the sake of it and at the cost of performing…
My Fascination With The Role Of AI In Songwriting
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a great believer in using anything that can create, inspire, stimulate and expand on my songwriting ideas and turn them into a finished song. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in our…
The BIG List Of Songwriting Prompts And Lyric Generators (UPDATED)
I think it goes without saying that I love to write songs. Sometimes a song can come from thin air and basically write itself and sometimes a songwriting session can be more painful than passing kidney stones. It all depends…
My Debut CD Release “Seeing Stars” – 10 Years On
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of my debut CD “Seeing Stars” and after giving it a bit of a listen before I started writing this post… I’m still quite proud of it. A lot of things have…
What I’ve Learnt About Writing My Own Songs By Playing Covers
Personally, I love learning covers in my own unique way almost as much as writing, recording and playing my own music. The main reason for this is that by me learning and deconstructing/reconstructing songs that I really connect with or,…
Introducing… Funkus Maximus
Anyone that knows me knows that I love funk music. As a bass player I almost think it’s somehow my duty to devote some of my playing, practising and songwriting time to the dark arts of FUNK. As I mentioned…