David Myles

What Downward-Moving Melodic Ideas Do For Your Music

Most of the people that listen to your songs will immediately pick up the mood of the music. In fact, the mood — the feeling they get when they hear your song — is the first thing they’ll experience. But they don’t often know what generates mood in music. Are you ready to have LYRICS […]

Merry Christmas - Gary Ewer

Merry Christmas To Everyone!

I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a prosperous New Year! Ideally we all want to see extended family and friends like we used to, but if that’s not possible for you this year, I hope at least that you can spend time with and appreciate those […]

Songwriting - speed writing

A Speedwriting Exercise for Songwriters

The perfect combination: “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting 10-eBook Bundle” and a Study Guide! Dig into the songwriting manuals that thousands of songwriters are using to polish their technique, complete with a study guide to show you how to progress through the materials. If you’re a celebrator of Christmas, you’ve reached that time of year […]

Songwriting imagery

Creating a More Effective Song Lyric With Imagery

I like to think of imagery as any lyric that seems to create more pictures in the mind than what you’d normally expect from so few words. A quick example: “The trees glowed as the moon shone brightly” describes a scene in a literal way, but… “The trees, bathed in moonlight…” gives us the same […]

Songwriting and Lyrics

The Non-Poetic Nature of (Most) Song Lyrics

Thousands of songwriters are using The Essential Secrets of Songwriting eBooks to straighten out their songwriting problems. Have you been spending years just reinforcing errors? Sort out your technique! Get today’s free deal! If you think of song lyrics as being poetry, you might be missing what’s really going on: a good song lyric creates emotions in the […]