Analyse your songs, pull them apart, try different structures, different arrangements, give yourself options and a direction and never abandon a song, always finish it and try to remember to make each song better than the one before. Songwriting collaboration is a good means of expanding and progressing your songwriting ideas with other songwriters and composers.
Stephen ‘Beanz’ Rudden | Music Producer | Songwriter | Consultant
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The issues faced by DIY (Do It Yourself), DTF (Direct-To-Fan), AKA indie musicians cut across both musical genre and race. Many of the sources of information for musicians today seem to come in silos delineated by genre: hip hop artists read hip hop books and blogs, and get advice primarily from hip hop industry people; jazz, rock, metal, pop and folk artists do the same. Yet we all face many of the same issues, and these sources of information repeat much of the same advice to those who want to make a career in music. When we all share our experiences, though, we see how universal it is to be a musician, no matter what type of music we make, what cultural background we are from, or what age we are.
I was reminded of this when I attended the Pacific Northwest Recording Academy’s (Grammy organization) inaugural Songwriter’s Summit this weekend at Seattle’s EMP (Experience Music Project). There were people of every age and color at the Summit, but the concerns and frustrations voiced by the attendees were nearly identical || Read more..
