5 tips for Silencing, then Awakening, Your Inner Critic

Being critical of what you’re writing is an essential step in perfecting your craft. Anyone who wants to improve at anything needs to be able to objectively critique what they do. To not have this kind of honest reckoning with yourself as an artist means limiting how much you can improve. The problem with being […]

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Why Your Good Songs Start Sounding Bad

Get “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 10-eBook Deluxe Bundle. Every aspect of songwriting, and will take your writing to a new level of excellence. READ MORE.. Does this ever happen to you: you write a song, you love it, you find yourself listening to it for hours on end. And then a few days later, […]

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Dealing With People Who Hate Your Music

As a student of music composition a number of years ago, I never wrote a piece of music for which somebody didn’t express an intense dislike. Those were pre-internet days, so I didn’t have to deal with online trolls, who can demolish your confidence if you let them. The key phrase there is “if you let them.” It […]