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The inaugural episode of our subscribers-only podcast, hosted by the Songwriting Magazine founders, with guests Jamie Lawson and Ed Bell...
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The NJ-based songwriting teacher explains how to stock up on musical and lyrical ideas that can naturally inspire new songs...
The space between words… Soulful singer-songwriter Josephine Oniyama explains how you can best use wordless passages to enhance your compositions...
Jazz musician and ICMP lecturer, Anjali Perinparaja, encourages us to embrace irregular time signatures and explains how to ‘take five’...
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