The circle of fifths sometimes gets a bad rap. But it can be one of the single most important tools in the songwriter’s toolbox.
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Learn to improve your songwriting with these tips, stories, and resources to help you break out of a creative rut and start writing better music. For more help, check out Soundfly’s course, The New Songwriter’s Workshop.
3 Tips for Getting Out of a Lyric Rhyming Rut
Stuck in “rhymer’s block?” We enlisted a professional songwriting coach to show us three creative schemes for helping to write song lyrics that rhyme.
How to Design a Great Songwriter Website
No matter what type of songs you write, or who you write them for, here are some templates for showcasing your work to your audience, courtesy of Bandzoogle
Chorus Writing Strategy 101
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Are You Talking to Me? Using Conversation in Lyrics
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The Art of Showing Up
Perhaps one of the biggest differences between a professional and an amateur musician is what…
Scaffolding: How to Use Structure to Map Out the Energy Flow of Your Song
Songs are almost always built from sections that will feel very familiar, and yet they still…
Why Writing Music All About Yourself Hurts Your Songwriting Craft
Songwriting can be an intensely personal artistic endeavor, so it makes sense that many musicians…
Exploring the Lydian Mode with Elliott Smith’s “Waltz #1”
Like thousands of other young music fans with a penchant for the delicate beauty born…
Songwriting School: Verse Two – Now What?
A common stumbling block for songwriters is how to handle the second verse. After all,…