Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
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You have to put something into your mind to get something out.
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Topics covered: Songwriting for busy people, capturing song ideas, GTD (Getting Things Done), organization, productivity, iTunes, GarageBand, Logic Pro, inspiration, motivation, tagging, mood markings, songwriting techniques, review, Hit Song Cheat Sheet, and much more…
DICK GROVE (1927-1998) had a distinguished career as a professional writer and composer in Los Angeles and as a unique innovator in the field of contemporary music education.
In 1973 he founded the world-renowned Grove School of Music in Los Angeles and guided this highly regarded institution into the top rank of leading contemporary music schools, [...]
Topics covered: Chord progressions, I-IV-V, The blues, classical music, mashups, melody, modal progressions, music software, rhythm…
Topics covered: Top 10 Lyric Writing Insights, line length, contrasting ideas, melody, metaphor, prosody, rhyme schemes, rhythm, song forms, spotlights…
This will be fun to watch.
In previous years, professional producers and songwriters have been commissioned to write an original song for each of the two finalists. But uncertainty over who those finalists would be, as well as their respective singing styles, has meant less-than-perfect matches.
“It’s a thankless task,” Fuller said.
But Fuller has devised a way [...]
Do you know of an author that has written a book in one sitting? Or how about a composer who created a masterpiece in an afternoon?
You haven’t? Me neither. And that’s why I write for the garbage can.
Johnny Mercer, the songwriter, said he used to write for the waste basket. When I first heard this, [...]
Topics covered: Song titles, P.T. Barnum, hooks, headlines, direct response, songwriting, the internet…
Don’t be stopped by your frustrations… The main thing is persistence.
Jesse Harris share his songwriting process with you from the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus.
Musiclens lets you search for music using vague criteria like how loud it is or its tempo and mood. Pretty spiffy flash interface as well.
Musiclens is different from Song Tapper and maybe not as good for finding the title of a song. But it shines if you use it to discover new music. I especially [...]
Topics covered: Mental rehearsal, how to get your music heard, how to elicit good feedback about your music, outcome-based thinking and intentional music, effective lyric phrasing, songwriting hacks, “open loops”, the 80/20 rule of songwriting.
I found this rough guide on how to mix a pop record from scratch. Since many people don’t seem to know where to begin, this article will give some guidance. How to Mix a Pop Song From Scratch.
Just found a new and free random word generator. It creates random sentences and paragraphs too. But the best part is random world plus. You can choose the word type and the word complexity. If you were to add syllables and stress you would have a kick-ass songwriting word generator.
As it is now, it’s perfect [...]
Adapted from the book, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant musician. If he was alive today…
He would have an insatiably curious approach to songwriting and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.
Songs can be like problems or puzzles that we must solve or piece together. Asking creative questions can open [...]
Perfect Rhyme has three characteristics:
The rhyming syllables have the same vowel sounds
The consonant sounds after the vowel (if any) have the same sounds
The rhyming syllables begin differently
A good substitute for Perfect Rhyme is Family Rhyme:
The rhyming syllables have the same vowel sounds
The consonant sounds after the vowel are phonetically related
The rhyming syllables begin differently
In Family [...]
I got two great links from Steve Rubel today.
First is The Web 2.0 Awards. Over 300 Web 2.0 sites in 38 categories.
Second is Keotag. The first thing I did was grab the tag feeds for “graham english”. It’s a slick way to keep track of what people are saying about you on the internet. And [...]
Give me 5 minutes and I’ll show you how to instantly find unique and interesting details to put into your lyrics.
The technique is called Object Writing and it’s so ridiculously easy that you’ll be pissed you didn’t know about it sooner. I learned it from Pat Pattison.
Here’s how it works:
First, gather your materials. You’ll need [...]
Yesterday, I was talking about The Long Tail and how there’s a lot of opportunity in being a filter to lay-people. I’ve been getting some really good quality traffic from being a filter over at Squidoo. Last week my songwriting lens was the 3rd most blogged and my ear training lens was 4th. I was [...]
I’ve noticed a lot of resistance to “songwriting rules”. Most of the criticism falls in the Craft vs. Inspiration camp. And my defense is always that it isn’t an either-or argument.
From Don’t forget square one…:
Horse trainer Linda Parelli says that, and her take on amateurs-vs.-experts is that the amateurs forget the fundamentals. Her husband Pat, [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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