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Articles about songwriting more specific to Songwriting Week

  • 9 Artists Tell the Story Behind the Song

    9 Artists Tell the Story Behind the Song

    Last week, tons of bands got into the spirit of #SongwritingWeek by posting stories of how one of their songs was written or recorded. And in honor of their hard work, we’ve decided to give out a few awards. So drumroll please… the winners are… The Great Nostalgia Award: Exiles (Brooklyn, NY) Kill the Lights by Exiles Exiles…

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  • The Surprising, Nomadic History of Love Songs

    The Surprising, Nomadic History of Love Songs

    Summer is a time for love, and with that, comes a whole new chance to woo the guy or girl of our dreams. Enter: the love song. It’s that wonderful, time-honored tradition that would-be Romeos have been using to swoop a lady-love off her feet for hundreds of years. Or in my case make her…

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  • What You Need to Know to Compose for Musicals

    What You Need to Know to Compose for Musicals

    The Broadway musical is such a mélange of parts — often Frankensteined together — that it’s easy to take for granted the weight that each of the creative elements bear. I think ten out of ten composers would agree that songwriting is the most integral of said elements. After all, no music = no musical.…

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  • 5 Exercises to Write More Creative Lyrics

    + Improve your songwriting with Soundfly! Explore our range of courses on emotional chord progressions, basic songwriting technique, songwriting for producers, and many more. Subscribe for unlimited access here. Writing creative lyrics is a challenging task. If you want to write for radio, you’ll probably lean towards accessible themes of love with simple, easy-to-digest lyrics. Poetry, as beautiful as it…

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  • 5 Chord Progressions to Kickstart Your Songwriting

    5 Chord Progressions to Kickstart Your Songwriting

    Need a boost of inspiration? Try any of these fool-proof chord progressions to jumpstart your writing process.

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Elijah Fox at the piano