Every week, Andrea Stolpe writes a post titled “while you are writing”, in which she suggests we try 2 ideas, one for the business side of songwriting and one for the craft side of songwriting. I’m loving her craft suggestion of the week; read it at http://andreastolpe.berkleemusicblogs.com/2008/01/28/while-you-are-writing%e2%80%a6idea-3/
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When well written, a song is like a mini story, not too long and not too short. But how to you write down a story into a concise set of lyrics?
There are countless books on fiction writing and novel plotting; i’ve studied my fair share of them, and i’ve been putting it into practice for many years.
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The Makeshift Musician is a new blog written by Ben. His blog is written to share what he has learned along the way as a self-taught musician and audio engineer. I particularly liked his post “gain confidence to compose music” at http://makeshiftmusician.blogspot.com/2008/01/gain-confidence-to-compose-music.html
Andrea Stolpe writes another great post this week, titled “why did THAT song get recorded?!?!” at http://andreastolpe.berkleemusicblogs.com/2008/01/19/why-did-that-song-get-recorded/
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