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

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. The trick is to get it in there, don’t hurt the […]

Chord of the day #5

Hey out there! We hope you all are doing great this year and already have some inspirational lyrics ready to be played with this chord of the day. Today we’re covering a simple G5. Perhaps this one could be useful to some of you as it enables you to move the shape up and down […]

did-you-know: David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Thom Yorke, Bob Dylan, and Iggy Pop have all used the same ‘cut up’ technique to write many of their songs. Using poems or lyrics they’d already written, they cut the words apart, mixed them around, and put them back together in a different order to achieve a more poetic […]

Chord of the day #3

Hey there, today we keep it short. Have fun jamming around with this wonderful chord in your writing and let us know how you’re doing, we’d love to hear what you come up with and would repost it on this blog as well. See you all tomorrow  If you enjoy our work please follow this […]

Chord of the day #2

Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the last chord of the day and probably came up with something great. Here is another dose for today that might spark your imagination again.  Today’s chord is Cadd2! You might be familiar with its sibling Cadd9, which is commonly used in not only pop music today. Using slightly altered […]

songwriting-and-performing: “Art becomes great when people are able to see themselves and recognize themselves in it.” “You’re gonna write a lot fewer songs, a lot fewer poems, a lot fewer books if you sit around and wait for a bolt of lightning. I think you should put the pencil in your hand, put the guitar […]