Inside ‘We Are The Champions’
Queen’s ‘We Are The Champions’ (written by Freddie Mercury) consistently intrigued me. I’ve always been…
Queen’s ‘We Are The Champions’ (written by Freddie Mercury) consistently intrigued me. I’ve always been…
The key in which you write a song often occurs randomly. You happen to start…
My friend Marc Blatte, a hit songwriter himself, tells me that he had conversations, individually,…
There have been periods in my life, long periods, when I wrote two or three…
In our lyrics, most of us tend to write about the same things over and…
When I hear a song I like that’s either new, new to me, or that…
A good melody tells a story. It doesn’t just help tell the story of the…
We songwriters spend a lot of time contending with what I call the ‘crossword puzzle’…
It’s common for songwriters to anxiously think something like, “when people hear my songs, then…
Melodies are a songwriter’s secret weapon. More than any other part of a song, a…
When asked which came first, the music or the lyrics, the great lyricist Sammy Cahn…
When writing a lyric, we songwriters often have trouble answering a very mundane question: What…
If I’m lucky, I start out a song with an idea I like – music,…
“If I play this song in public and it’s not copyrighted, isn’t there a chance…
It may seem too obvious to say that melodies, like all other aspects of a…
Recently I was with a friend of mine who’s in a creative field and quite…
It’s hard for most of us songwriters to write a bunch of good songs unless…
I used to be lazy about keeping track of the songs I’d written. When I…
The way I often write lyrics that rhyme – and I don’t think this is…
Tonight in a songwriting workshop I was working with a writer and something came up…