You’re driving down the road, jamming to your favorite tunes, when out of nowhere you get this really great inspiration for a lyric line or song theme. You feel so brilliant, and could totally work with it! By the time you get to your destination, you’ve already forgotten what it was. Another song idea casualty [...]

So you want to write songs, but you don’t know where to start. There are countless songwriting courses out there that guarantee success if you follow their program step by step. But what about the creative aspects?
While you can learn song structure, effective rhyming, developing melody and so forth, you’re still going to need to [...]

I may very well receive some hate mail from this article, so be forewarned that it’s full of advice that some aspiring artists may not want to hear (but need to).
Recently I met an aspiring artist (I’m not in the business of disparaging people, so no disclosure here). I have to say that he was [...]