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Jeff's Songwriting Blog
http://www.jeffsongwriting.blogspot.com
Practical tips on songwriting
- Added on: Mar 4th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Music Entertainment Writing
- Tags: artists songwriting studio performance recording songwriting tips
Recent Posts
Song Camp – Next Generation Songwriters
I have the pleasure to assist Walt Lofstrom and Mary Morrissey in Song-Camp, a program that writes songs with 9 to11 year old kids. Each week, we have two groups of around 15 kids, each writing a song in one hour.Last week was great example of the su...
Songwriter - Hayes Carll
I heard this great song with the hook, "She left me for Jesus." I haven't been able to get it out of my head, so today I tracked it down on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyxEO9dqi44. I also searched for lyrics and discovered Hayes Carll. ...
Songwriting - Coloring your song
At Song School, I had the opportunity to work with Maggie Simpson in taking one of my songs to the next level. Maggie uses a process from acting to "color" a song.There were a few steps, but one that I remember most is singing a song three ways, with...
Capos for songwriting - Part 2
Over the last week, I've been exploring one capo position - partial capo, down from top, second fret. At this point, I have guitar parts for four songs and melodies for two. Now all I have to do is get motivated for lyrics.To create these parts, I ...
Capos for songwriting
I just returned from the 2009 Song School. Again an wonderful experience that I'll try to recap over the next few weeks.I took classes with Justin Roth and Bill Nash on using capos and partial capo. Want to open up your playing, take a class from eit...
The English language is not universal but music is
Rob Roper in his blog wrote an interesting comment in his blog about playing music in the Netherlands.“Almost all the Dutch speak English--some very well. But I could tell when I was singing my songs that, for many of them, they missed the nuances ...
