Coming up with song ideas is hard. You start down a path and then you realize that whatever you thought your song was going to be about is just leading to dead ends. There are lots of ways to stimulate your imagination. Sometimes just picking up a pencil and writing, stream-of-consciousness-style, can yield surprisingly good […]
No matter what your favourite songwriting process is, all songs start with you getting some sort of musical idea. It might be a fragment of lyric, a catchy chord progression and rhythm, or even just a short bit of melody. Who knows where these ideas come from… often they seem to pop out of thin […]
Written by Gary Ewer, author also of “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6-eBook Bundle. _______________ My book “Beating Songwriters’s Block: Jump-Start Your Words and Music,” has recently been released in hardcover on the US Amazon website. In answer to several questions I’ve received lately, of the “what will this book do for me?” variety, I […]
