chord progressions

4 ways to silence your songwriting self-editor

April 17, 2011
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Sometimes, you just want to write. Right? You just want the words to flow, to put pen to paper, to allow everything inside your head to come tumbling out on paper. Of course, that’s easier said than done, if your Songwriting Self-Editor has anything to say about it. The “Songwriting Self-Editor” — a devil in [...]

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Guest post: Five Unusual Songwriting Tricks from The Beatles

November 17, 2010

In the wake of the news that The Beatles are now available on iTunes, I’m excited to present this guest post from regular reader and English songwriter Matt Blick, who is blogging his way through all 211 Beatles songs. I’ve already learned lots! Five Beatles Songwriting Tricks — By Matt Blick The Beatles were songwriting Ninjas, but [...]

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Songwriting Scene’s All-Time Top 10 Posts — Have You Seen ‘Em?

October 20, 2010

I recently perused the stats for all of my posts since the beginning of Songwriting Scene’s existence in June 2009 — and the results are sometimes surprising, sometimes not. The Top 10, in general, are ahead by a mile. I guess a successful post builds on itself! If you didn’t get a chance to read [...]

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The songwriting gloves are off…can chord progressions/rhythms be plagiarized?

May 25, 2010

It turned into the most lively discussion ever on the Songwriting Scene Facebook page last week: It started because I have a song that I recorded several years ago, which I don’t play anymore — it’s just a light and fluffy pop song that doesn’t resonate much with me anymore. But I happen to really [...]

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