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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 Think Tank: What’s the best songwriting advice you ever received?

November 10, 2010

I reached out to readers and friends with the following query: What is the best songwriting advice you ever received? I got a slew of great responses from a variety of terrific songwriters, some who quote other terrific songwriters, and I’m excited to share some of them. As for me, I’m not sure I can [...]

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Songwriting and the verse: how to get it right

December 28, 2009

So often, I’ll listen to a song and think the hook, usually the chorus, is so powerful and amazing, and then I’ll listen closely to or read the lyrics to the verses and feel completely let down. I’ll give you an example of a song that’s been my guilty pop pleasure lately: A song called [...]

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A fave songwriting-related Twitter: Robin Frederick

September 25, 2009

You can roll your eyes at Twitter all you want — come on, I can see your eyes rolling right now!! Sure, it can seem ridiculously navel-gazing, full of people selling you stuff and that horrible Twitter porn (eewwwww). Still, I’m a happy Twitterer (I have three: @songscene, @sweetbitters and @sharongoldman) and I generally enjoy [...]

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