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 the other chords we […]
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 Dsus4 at some occasions […]
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 #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 from the barre C […]
Chord of the day #6
Hey everyone out there! Today we have a rather common chord for you. It is quite popular in pop music and adds a little bass to chord changes from G major to D major. As most of you know, a chord consists of at least three notes that are played at the same time. Hence […]
srsfunny: Pineapple And It’s Final Sometimes your mother tongue is somehow restrictive to your songwriting, perhaps you could use a popular word from another language instead. What really helps is using a thesaurus for incidents like this. Often all you need to change is one word to create a much more impressive image. So check […]
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 #4
Em add9 Hello again to all you out there! Hope you’re having a wonderful day and you have all your new year’s resolutions ready to go. In […]
srsfunny: It’s My Kind Of Combo Hey there! Are you looking for some quite unusual words to put into your songs? Well, words for concepts that derive from Latin are quite famous these days, and some manage to sneak into some of the greatest contemporary songs. So why don’t you give it a go and […]