Building Momentum, Image, the Big Sound & Cohesion | The Holistic Songwriting Podcast 1

Arranging, Chorus, Just For Fun, Marketing, Melody, Production

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadQuestions: I’ve been looking into and planning on attending The Academy of Contemporary Music in Oklahoma City. What’s your overall take on

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[incl. Video] How Taylor Swift Writes Songs (Analysis 1989)

Arranging, Chorus, Creativity, General, Inspiration, Just For Fun, Melody

Wanna find out how Taylor Swift writes her melodies? Tl;dr? Check out the video version of this blog here: Download “the Swift Line” here. TRANSCRIPTION: We’ve all heard

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3 Types Of Melodies You Must Know

Arranging, Chorus, General, Melody

Melody is king. No other melodic element in your arrangement will ever be as important – not chords, not the bass, not pluck sounds. So it makes sense

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3 Techniques To Making Your Choruses Hit HARD

Arranging, Chorus, Production

One of the biggest enemies to writing commercial songs is confusion. If your listeners don’t know where they are in your song (“wait – is this the chorus

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