Placing Songs and Creating Opportunities
The group I’ve helped develop has been together for a couple of years now and has been financed by a production studio in New York. The music is getting recognized by many important connects, but the image and sound of the group is not as successful. Since we have an abundance of songs, we [...]
How to Set Up a Songwriting Group
One of the most important things we can do to grow our songwriting careers is surround ourselves with a support system. Family and friends can be nice sounding boards when we’ve written a new tune, but we often don’t get the kind of feedback that is going to grow us as writers and push us [...]
Breaking Into Songwriting
I live in Philadelphia and I want to break into songwriting so bad – I am not sure if I can afford to take classes at the moment and wanted to know if you had an alternative or knew what I could do. I have been thinking about relocation to NYC to hone my skills, [...]
Quick Rewriting Tips
Whether you are the kind of writer for whom the whole song falls out in 15 minutes, or you painfully deliberate for hours over each line, there are a few quick rewriting tools that can help polish that final product. To apply these tools, sometimes we’ve got to be flexible with our melodic rhythms and [...]
What’s In A Critique?
Over a steaming cup of tea and some of the best sweet potato fries I’ve even eaten, I recently met with a past student and fellow songwriter of mine, Joy Gora, in Boston, MA. We talked about the craft, about the daily challenges and the victories we experience as we journey through the business. I [...]
