srsfunny: Typical 90s Problem Need inspiration? Look for something typical to your childhood, it might be antique by tomorrow. Some things are worth to be captured in lyrics to be kept alive. Yes especially VHS and cassettes. Perhaps even floppy disks 💾. Have fun searching for something retro to your songs. We’re thrilled to hear […]
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 […]
100 follower special – Thanks to all of you out there ❤️
Hey out there, we just realised, that there are already 100 of you following this blog and we love how much feedback you gave us. We hope some of the tricks helped you to come up with new lyrics or melodies and even complete songs. Today’s tip is about reading really. We never thought it […]
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 […]