Why Inspiration Isn’t Enough To Fuel And Define Your Music Inspiration is one of the most powerful forces in music and every other form of art. But like a great meal, it’s just one ingredient. ....
4 Ways Your Music Suffers When You Prioritize Perfection Chasing perfection in music creation is a constant temptation. It’s natural to want to create and perform the best music you can, but focusing too much ....
3 Tips To Ease Back Into DIY Touring After The Pandemic As much as we’d like there to be, it’s clear there’s not going to be a defined end to the pandemic’s impact on live ....
Realistic Goals For Your Next DIY Release As A Developing Artist If you’re a developing artist on the cusp of a new music release, it can be hard to know exactly what you want to ....
How To Bring Out Your Unique Strengths In Music Creation Creating lots of music obviously takes work, but writing in ways that highlight your unique strengths and perspectives as a songwriter is much harder to ....
4 Tips For Writing Your Best Music When you set out to write a new song, there are countless creative paths you can take. Most will lead to places you’ve been before, but some paths ....
What Is A Songwriting Practice And Why Is It Important The more time and space you carve out in your daily life for music creation, the better chance you’ll have at writing great songs. The ....
4 Benefits That Come From Focusing On What You Love In Music The non-musical world often thinks that making and performing music is always fun, easy, and instantly gratifying. But serious musicians know that this ....
3 Live Show Formats Likely To Return First After The Pandemic By now, most of the world has gone without live shows for so long that it can often feel like they’ll never return. Luckily, ....
4 Ways To Radically Change Your Songwriting Practice Without realizing it, we’re vulnerable to being sucked into lazy habits, ruts, and unproductive routines as songwriters. When making music doesn’t feel exciting or challenging anymore, it’s ....
4 Signs It’s Time To Take A Break From Music As a musician, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking you’re only being productive when you’re writing, recording, or performing. But the truth ....
How The Pandemic Is Impacting Bands As soon as lockdowns forced the mass cancelation of live events in the spring of 2020, it was clear that the music industry was going to be severely impacted. ....
How To Not Break Up Your Band Keeping a band together over a long period of time can be incredibly hard to do, even for successful musicians with every resource at their fingertips. In part, ....
Why You Should Create Multiple Versions Of Your Songs We all know that writing, producing, and recording one song is a ton of work, so it’s fair to ask why it’s worth the trouble of ....
5 Tips For Prioritizing Curiosity In Your Songwriting Practice Curiosity is by far one of the most important traits to embrace as a songwriter. By asking questions, you’ll get new perspectives for your music; ways ....
3 Questions To Ask Before Splitting Up Songwriting Credits If you’re in a band or some other type of collaborative musical relationship, the way you approach songwriting credits should be something you take seriously. Ambiguity ....
3 Tips For Writing Lots Of Music Writing music is hard. Writing lots of music is much harder. But between how insatiable audiences are for new music and the fact that the more often we ....
Why Creating Great Music Is Hard But That’s What Makes It Special If you’ve ever been in the thick of writing a song and felt like finishing it was impossible, you’re not alone. Every serious ....
5 Things To Try When You Can’t Finish A Song The situation of when a great new idea runs into a wall is all too familiar for serious songwriters. For countless reasons it can feel ....
5 Misconceptions About Making Music When it comes to creating music seriously, there’s what the world thinks and then what music-makers know to be true. Music is arguably the most impactful art form on the ....
4 Necessary Tasks To Get Your Music Heard When young, developing artists think about succeeding in music, they often picture sold-out venues, full wallets, and loyal fans who know all of their songs by heart. ....
3 Tips For Prioritizing Music In Your Weekly Schedule Music might be one of the most important things in your life, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to pursue it in earnest easily. From ....
Why You Should Write Music When You Don’t Feel Like It If you make music for fun with no intention of improving as a songwriter, creating only when you feel like it isn’t a bad ....
5 Ways To Fail In Music Because success means something different to each one of us as songwriters, we should also take time to think about what failure looks like to us. You might feel ....
3 Home Performance Opportunities To Explore As much as we’d like it to be, the live concert industry isn’t going to be back to normal for a long time. Performing from home doesn’t come close ....
When To Take A Minimalist Vs. An Extreme Approach In Songwriting Songwriting is a creative pursuit where it’s easy to get tricked into thinking that more is better––more production, more vocals, more complexity, etc. And, ....
The Importance of Forming New Artist Relationships Online Even before the pandemic, the music industry had become more digitally driven than ever before, from the meteoric rise of playlists to the increasingly tech-centered ways fans ....
Why You Should Ask What You Can Do For Your Fans Making music can be a completely isolating experience. So isolating, in fact, that it’s easy to forget that what we’re doing is for the ....
How Living A Fulfilling Life Translates To Making Great Music This feels weird to say, but if you live a life that’s completely revolved around making music, the songs you write might not end up ....
How To Tell If Your Writing Is Good Or Not This is a question that every songwriter has asked themselves at some point. We tool around on our instruments, come up with some sort of ....