Songwriting: Dealing With Sameness

Purchase “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 6-EBook Bundle (with a 7th free), and polish your songwriting skills! _______ It’s a fairly common problem in the songwriting world: when everything you write has an annoying similarity. The best songwriters out there deal with this, but what do they do? For many, it’s a matter of simply […]

Why Starting Songs Is Often So Difficult

Creating song ideas is not often the toughest part of songwriting. Working them together is harder. ______________ Looking for good songwriting content for your iPad, Kindle, laptop, desktop, or other PDF-reading device? Gary Ewer’s eBook Bundle packages will show you why good songs are good, and how to apply those lessons to your own music. Read more.. […]

Verse Melodies: Choose Your Starting Note Carefully

Starting verses on the dominant (5th) note can help entice audiences to keep listening. ______________ Take your songwriting to a new level of excellence. Buy “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 10-eBook Bundle, written by Gary Ewer. And get an 11th eBook FREE, “Creative Chord Progressions.” Time to become the best songwriter you can be!  ______________ Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” […]

Borrowing Musical Ideas from Other Songs

Here’s a way to take pre-existing songs and borrow melodic ideas (without anyone knowing). ______________ Looking for good songwriting content for your iPad, Kindle, laptop, desktop, or other PDF-reading device? Gary Ewer’s 10-eBook Deluxe Bundle will show you why good songs are good, and how to apply those lessons to your own music.  Read more.. ____________ […]

When and How to Use Altered Chords in Your Progressions

Altered chords can help add a bit of creativity to an otherwise mundane progression. Here’s how. ______________  Looking for good songwriting content for your iPad, Kindle, laptop, desktop, or other PDF-reading device? Gary Ewer’s eBook Bundle, “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting”, will show you why good songs are good, and how to apply those lessons […]

With Songwriting, Basic Curiosity Is an Essential Ingredient

No good musician works in a vacuum. Here’s how to let curiosity guide your songwriting career. ______________ Take your songwriting to a new level of excellence. Buy “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 10-eBook Deluxe Bundle, written by Gary Ewer. It comes with “From Amateur to Ace – Writing Songs Like a Pro.” Read more.. ______________ In my years of […]