The space between words… Soulful singer-songwriter Josephine Oniyama explains how you can best use wordless passages to enhance your compositions...
Writing Music
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Jazz musician and ICMP lecturer, Anjali Perinparaja, encourages us to embrace irregular time signatures and explains how to ‘take five’...
If you’re not getting the most out of your acoustic then the Scottish singer-songwriter is here to lend a hand...
Nashville-based songwriting coach Mark Cawley looks at the core music-making element and how to open up new possibilities for melody...
Writer and musician Ellie Mckinsey explores one of the most common chord sequences and explains how to harness its power...
Our guitar and production aficionado Dave Chrzanowski shows how different scales can be used to write riffs, melodies and solos...
Songwriting coach James Linderman advises on the best use of these lesser-known chords, and how they can ‘augment’ your song...
This upcoming 90-minute webinar, presented by SongwriterLink in partnership with Songwriting Magazine, sees author Friedemann Findeisen sharing his hook-writing tips...
Guitar tutor Jack Jennings takes us through the definition, application and theory behind the unresolved element and its contrasting resolution...
First of a two-part article, in which Berklee Music’s James Linderman looks at chord quality and the moods they create...
Ryan Buckner takes us through the fundamentals of musical dynamics, the element that brings light and shade to your songwriting...
Berkleemusic Ambassador James Linderman offers up some advice for those who do the bulk of their songwriting on the guitar...
Interview: Nerina Pallot
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16 song starters
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'Tis the season to enter the 9th Annual Christmas Songwriting Competition
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How I wrote 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega
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How I wrote 'Suddenly I See' by KT Tunstall
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How I wrote ‘Big In Japan’ by Alphaville
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How we wrote Ariana Grande's 'Santa Tell Me' by Savan Kotecha
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How I wrote 'Zombie' by The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan
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How I wrote ''74-'75' by The Connells
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How I wrote Art Garfunkel's 'Bright Eyes' by Mike Batt
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