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FEED ME – GREAT SONGWRITING NEEDS CONSTANT INSPIRATION

7/26/2022

Do you feel like your melodies sound dated when you’re writing a new song? Are you in a songwriting rut? It happens to us all. We start rolling and write a bunch of songs we really love, and then one day we wake up and everything starts sounding the same. Every new idea we create seems familiar. And worse, those ideas may sound like melodies we heard years before! That’s the most horrible part. There had been times I wrote a brand new song and played it for my artists and they showed me the “original” version of that song. I was very sure I hadn’t copy, and when I was so frustrated of what is happening, a psychologist friend of mine told me that human brain tend to keep the audio in the memory for an unbelievable amount of time and no matter if we remember it or not, when we want to write, subconsciously we might write the melody that we don’t remember and we are not even aware of the fact that song ever existed or we ever had heard it. But it already is registered in our subconsciousness.

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THE SONGWRITER’S BUSINESS PLAN

7/19/2022

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One of the things I discovered when I started mentoring songwriters is that very few of us have a plan for where we want to be in future and how we want to get there. That may be the curse of the creative mind – we get so lost in making stuff up that we lose sight of the business side of things that must be tended to as well. And it’s a big mistake for people who want to make a living in any aspect of creative industries. There is two words in “Music Business”. There is music and there is business and they both are equally important.

None can work without the other one. In mentoring sessions, we often work on a customized plan for the specific person. But, in general, there are some steps I recommend for every songwriter who is trying to turn their songwriting passion into a business.

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WHAT MAKES A GREAT SONG A HIT SONG?

7/12/2022

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I can’t count the number of times I have had this question asked of me. Someone will play me a great song and express their confusion over the lack of interest they are getting from the industry when they play it for people. It’s anything strange in this industry to see that a great song doesn’t become a hit song. I am not going to brag about any of my own songs here, but I know countless unbelievably great songs written by people I know that they all – and sometimes myself included – were very sure that this song will become a massive hit and when it was recorded and released, we were just waiting to see it in top of the charts, and waiting, and waiting, and nothing was happening. After a few disappointing experiences like this, I started trying to find out why such great songs are not becoming hits. And after putting the pieces of puzzle together, I came to some conclusions that explain why not every great song will become a hit.

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THINGS THAT KEEP ME KEEPING ON AS A SONGWRITER

7/5/2022

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Failure is not failure. Most great people fail many times before they succeed. Just imagine the world if all those people whom we now know as successful had gave up in any of the first of hundreds of times that they failed. Imagine if Steve Jobs just gave up any of the times that his marketing ideas reached to a dead-end road. Can you imagine the world without Apple products? Imagine, if Dr Dre had given up on Eminem when the whole hip-hip industry at the moment had told Dre to leave alone the white boy because he is not good enough. Even when Eminem’s first album failed so bad, but instead Dre and Eminem just worked on their craft and they gave birth to the Rap God we know today. Can you imagine our current world without Eminem? Can you imagine the world without Bill Gates and Microsoft? Even let’s go one step further, can you imagine the world without the Thomas Edison and electricity? All these people had failed countless times but at the end of the day, they made an impact that changed the world, in some cases forever.

Just think about it, each of us – songwriters – might become one of those kind of big people in one point in our life but that definitely will not happen if we give up when we fail. It happens, learn the lesson and move on.

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FEED ME – GREAT SONGWRITING NEEDS CONSTANT INSPIRATION

THE SONGWRITER’S BUSINESS PLAN

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