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 #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 […]

stylinsongifs: songwriting How do you write down your moments of inspiration? Do you prefer the old-fashioned way of handwriting it down, or do you think that technical evolution is the only way to note down your deepest emotions? We’d love to hear, how you create all those great lyrics you send us throughout the week. […]

Chord of the day #15

Chord of the day #15 Hey everyone! Today we have a little music theory to our chord of the day. This lovely F minor chord could easily be played in a minor key song. However, you could use it to add emotional twists in your major scales as well. In this case, the C major scale has […]

Tom Waits on Songwriting #2 tomwaitsvisualdictionary: “My theory is the best songs have never really been recorded. We’re listening to things that made it through but there’s so many songs that have never made it because they were scared of the machine and wouldn’t allow themselves to be recorded.

25 Great Songwriters on the Art of Songwriting

25 Great Songwriters on the Art of Songwriting Here are 25 famous songwriters of our time with their words of wisdom on songwriting. Feel inspired you lot 🎶 25 Great Songwriters on the Art of Songwriting View On WordPress