Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics

Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics By far the best course on writing better lyrics. If you haven’t enrolled yet, it surely is worth giving it a go. Much of the tips that I provide is being inspired by adaptations of this course.  Berklee has an outstanding reputation in music business and musicianship.

Weekly dose of vocabulary #5

Hey everyone out there,  As promised last week, there is a freshly created set of vocabulary waiting for you to be learned. So don’t hesitate and head over to vocabulary.com and find some inspirational words for your songs.  List of vocabulary  Have fun and let me know what you think about the content of this […]

Weekly dose of vocabulary #4

Hey everyone!  How is your songwriting going so far? I hope you enjoyed the content of this blog so far and I love to hear your feedback on what to feature next. Anyway, there is some new vocabulary online on vocabulary.com, and you might want to check it out to put in today’s lyrics. This […]

A post on vocabulary & learning

Hello everyone out there, This week is a busy one, one could say. I have been working on many projects simultaneously, and in the remaining spare time, I literally consume so much music theory as I could get my (digital) hands on. However, there is something I just came across about a few minutes ago, […]

Chord of the day #7

Chord of the day #7 Hey out there, everyone! Today’s chord is Am7 with the bass note A on the fifth fret of the lowest E string. The x marks strings that are not played and have to be muted. This Am7 has a jazzy sound to it and could be performed in a descending line […]

Chord of the day #9

Chord of the day #9 Hello everybody! Hope you’re doing great at writing your songs within the last few days and came up with some great lyrics and melodies of your own. So today’s chord is C/B, which is excellent within a pattern from C to Am, as it contains a beautiful descending bass line. It […]

Chord of the day #10

Chord of the day #10 Hey everyone! Today’s chord is D/C#, and it is commonly used between the chords D and Bm. Go try for yourself, whether it suits your needs and perhaps inspires you to write something great today. Have a lot of fun and all the best wishes🎶 View On WordPress

Challenges For Writers

wordsnstuff: You guys wanted some prompts and I thought this might give you some fun ideas. Some of these challenges can apply to every kind of writer, so I suggest skimming them all 🙂 Songwriters Produce an album with each song touching on a different social issue compose a movie score write 1 song a […]

Chord of the day #11

Chord of the day #11 Hey everybody! Today’s chord is Dsus4 and it is rather simple to play even for beginners. For guitarists, you just need to change one note on your high e-string and on the piano you just play the G instead of the F#. So try altering the normal D chord with this […]

Chord of the day #12

Chord of the day #12 Hey, out songwriters out there! Well we know, you must be thinking – ‘Hey there was a D chord yesterday already!’ – and indeed, there was. However, this one so wonderful to have another chord to alter your regular D when playing chord progressions. So for today, try to use this and […]