How to Borrow Chords From the Minor Key Step By Step
This is a really awesome topic for beginner songwriters to get into for spicing up chord progressions. However, it is going to require that you understand Roman Numeral Analysis and Major and Minor scales. Here’s a post on Roman Numeral Analysis Explained Simply if you…
How to Find the “Right” Chords for Your Song Every Time
Ah, the plague of every songwriter. How do you find the right chords for a song with so many options? How do you make emotive chord progressions that pull at your heartstrings and take you on a ride from start to finish? How do you…
The Roles of Songwriter vs Producer in Making Songs
In the process of making music there are often roles that get confused with each other or seem to blend together out of how we hear the words used. Songwriters and producers are two examples of this dynamic where people often use both words to…
Mistakes & Solutions Recording Acoustic Guitar at Home
Let me know if this experience sounds familiar. While I learned on acoustic like most other guitar players, I quickly switched to electric, so by the time I got to having recording experience, it was only on electric guitar. When I started writing acoustic songs…
Songwriting Tips for Music Producers
Nowadays there are a lot of people who don’t play an instrument but instead become producers and learn how to write songs using computers. This post is for you. By programming instruments you can write full songs without ever touching an instrument, and can later…
The Best Virtual Instrument Libraries for Songwriters
If you are a songwriter that is starting to write songs or make demos on a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), and you are looking to start your library of instruments to use in your productions, this post is for you. Let’s begin by stating that…
What is the Best DAW for Songwriters?
Songwriters nowadays have a lot of hats to wear. Aside from writing songs it’s safe to say some level of music production knowledge is an absolute must, if only to make some decent sounding demos. This is very important to have before going into the…
How Do Chord Inversions Work in Songwriting?
So you’re writing songs and trying to figure out chord progressions and you came across the topic of chord inversions and want to know how they are used in songwriting. Let me start by saying that although it might sound like a complicated topic it…
How to Choose Scales for Improvisation
Improvisation is a whole world in and of itself and it can get really complicated. In this article I’d like to keep things simple and just give you some tips to pick scales to use over chords and chord progressions. This will help with your…
Easy Hacks for Finding a Song’s Key
As a songwriter and musician, there are some situations you will run into where you will want to know what the key of a song is. One of these might be that you wrote a song entirely by ear and now you’re editing it to…
