Very good.

After I write a song, I will often go through and pare it down, taking out unnecessary words. Often, the message will remain intact, even without the...

When you've lost your mojo.... learn a new instrument. They make you think about music in different ways. (If you don't get you mojo back, at least ...

There's 1001 ways.Try this one: record the chord progression. When you do, play the whole thing out, like 4 minutes or so. Alternate verse/chorus i...

See if this will get you anywhere on the melody:For a moment, forget about the words you've written (we will come back to them later). Work the chord...

This is good.Tell us a little about the music...

Is this the kind of quote you mean?Well I don't write them [songs] unless I absolutely have to. I don't wake up in the morning and say 'Jeez, I feel g...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with rhymes or cliches. Its a matter of how you use them. They can be crutches or they can be tools for inviting t...

I never started writing a song by writing lyrics first. This is method that doesn't work for me. I have to construct a song piece by piece. By writing...

I like the imagery.Just to provide an alternate viewpoint to Purple and Tiger Jam though - personally I hate too strict an adherance to rhyme. If ther...

I generally like what Purple did with it. One of my primary thoughts was to go through and eliminate some of the extra and unnecessary words. Since ...

Something in Purple's post got me thinking, and it seems to me the theme in your song has strong parallels with the book Ecclesiastes in the Old Testa...

Isn't it the same reason that comedies don't win the Academy Award for Best Picture?(unless we are talking about a romantic comedy written by William ...

I really cannot imagine paying that kind of money for a guitar without holding it in my own hands and hearing it with my own ears.