You can sit around waiting for inspiration to strike, or you can look a song straight in the eye and work on it. I quite enjoyed the word association exercise I did this week and it resulted in a song. In the end I didn't use a lot of the words on the list, but
I joined an online songwriting club a few months ago. We have to write and record a song every week. Doesn't matter if it's good or not, you just have to write. Ten weeks later and I've written ten songs. Most of them are pretty good. Some of them need a bit more work. I'm
I got all energetic and lifted the lid of my piano to record today. It gets a much better sound than using my phone sitting on the top! I've joined a songwriting club and have to write and record a song every week. This is not an easy ask, but it is very satisfying. I
Finally I have my home recording studio set up. It took rather a long time to sort it out and for that little red box to arrive in the post. Now that I've set it all up, it's ridiculously easy to record - plug in and go. Not only that, but it's small enough that
Songwriting is a strange process. Sometimes the song is a struggle most of the way, but you get there in the end. Other times it seems to spring out of nowhere. And then there are all those in betweens. In my books, when I write the lyrics to a verse one day and the second
I went to bed far too late last night after being ambushed by the piano and a tune in my head. I woke up this morning with an idea for the B section, got out of bed, tried it on the piano and it worked beautifully. The lyrics for that section wrote themselves - I'm
Starting a song is easy - an idea pops up, I play with it for a little while and in turns into something with potential. I'll go back and work on it a few days or a week later and it gets closer to finished. But actually finishing a song takes hard work, and I
