All About Songwriting
Just think, as songwriters, every time we write a song we start off with a blank page. It sits there and it waits patiently for us to pick up our pen and pour out our songwriting ideas from our hearts and minds onto its surface however, a blank page can mean one of two things to […]
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure James Lane Allen When it comes to writing songs, nothing blocks the flow of songwriting ideas more than two small but very powerful words… FEAR and DOUBT. The fear comes first. I’m talking about the fear of… Not being good enough Being ridiculed by online […]
I, like many, many songwriters have a problem with my songwriting process… It’s called “perfectionism” and along with an extremely over-zealous inner critic, this problem has plagued me my whole songwriting/music career. I have tried many times to snap out of it and to some extent have been temporarily successful numerous times over the years […]
Let’s look at the word SONGWRITING for a minute. The dictionary meaning of the word is the “… writing the music and words of songs.” Now that should give us a clue but I think the definition it goes deep enough. I reckon the meaning of the word SONGWRITING should be something like… “The process […]