songwriting

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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Walk-the-walk songwriting: Jack Hardy, 1947-2011

March 11, 2011
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As songwriters, we all talk about getting into the songwriting groove and writing more songs — constantly working to improve, consistently putting pen to paper.  But very, very few of us could ever hope to walk-the-walk — and not just talk-the-talk — when it comes to writing songs as Jack Hardy did. An institution in [...]

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Getting deep…into a songwriter’s catalog

February 8, 2011

I mentioned in my last post that I saw a great TV biography of Bruce Springsteen a couple of weeks back. It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but I never knew much of Bruce’s music: Sure, I knew the hits — “Born to Run,” “Rosalita,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” and the like — but I [...]

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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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