While there are many, many ways to write lyrics for a song, a popular method is the “3 steps method”, as described in Six Steps to Songwriting Success by Jason Blume. Many songwriters have employed it, knowingly or unknowingly, over decades, and the first step is to come up with an evocative song title.
I like to […]

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Thanks to Ian Stewart for providing a free PDF with 20 ideas for composing.
It is now available in our “free ebooks” section, on the right side of the screen (scroll down a little if you don’t see it).
The PDF features simple ideas to compose music, and even more crucially, to help you finish your compositions. […]

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Last week-end, I was chatting with my friend Mark from Wilberforce and we discussed the subject of using a thesaurus when writing lyrics. He felt that perhaps it was cheating and he wasn’t comfortable with the idea. So is using a rhyming dictionary or a thesaurus when writing lyrics cheating?
I use both a rhyming dictionary […]

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