Below are some steps to songwriting that always get me results….
Step 1 - Spend half an hour listening to some great music
Step 2 - Find the chords, playing and singing some of this great music
Step 3 – Take your recorder and brain vomit all your ideas on tape for 1 hour
Step 4 – Get your [...]

When I’m at trade shows people often come up and ask me is melody in songwriting important, or can you just write songs on paper and expect the get something special?
For me the answer is always the same; if you want to write a great song, melody is all important.
If you think about Beatles songs [...]

If you’ve hit this page then you must be in the market for some free songwriting tips? Well look no further, below are a couple of my favorites.
The first is a bit of a cheat but works like a dream. This method is all about looking at great songs and their chord structures and then [...]

Songwriting Help: Originality is the keyword here. Listeners want to hear something that’s different. Try utilising a common theme, but from a different perspective.
Songwriting Help - Selecting the theme
Originality is the keyword here. Listeners want to hear something that’s different. Try utilising a common theme, but from a different perspective.
Themes that work well are those [...]