http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:15:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In case you're wondering, yes - you're in the right place.  This is the SongwriterAdvisor.com Blog.  Stick with me, I promise you won't be disappointed; I'm going to change this up a bit, and I'm hoping this will benefit many of you. What if I said you could have a great time on the ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/11/17/this-weekend-party-wepa/ // –> // –> // –> // –> // –> // –> // –> // –> // --> // --> // --> // --> // --> // --> In pop music, if you're looking to create a good song, write it using simple, catchy, repetitive phrases in the lyrics as well ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/11/13/for-a-good-song-write-good-hooks/ > Even the best songwriters of the wonderful craft we call songwriting continually work on their songwriting skills with one simple goal in mind; to become a better songwriter. They know not only that they're sometimes seen as "only as good as their last hit song" in the eyes of many music publishers, but that ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/11/06/how-to-become-a-better-songwriter/ > One of my favorite songwriting lyric tips and tricks is to use inner rhyming to my advantage by continually finding fresh ways to use this type of effective rhyming.  Inner rhyming has a tendency to build momentum in any part of your song, so if you're looking to add life to your creations, this ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/10/30/advanced-songwriting-lyric-tips-a-fresh-inner-rhyming-technique/ This is an article originally released in the September, 2008 "Tune Sleuth" newsletter, inspired by one of our reader's questions that I found to be very helpful for other readers to enjoy! Before using a songwriter demo service to record your original songs,be absolutely certain they are ready to be recorded by making ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/10/24/how-to-pick-a-songwriter-demo-service/ // --> // --> Not too many years ago, pop music featured a variety of artists in a multitude of different genres and styles. "Hit songwriting" was a phrase that was almost "taboo" or a "jinx," and if you mentioned it to somebody in the music industry, they would immediately think ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/10/21/hit-songwriting-has-become-far-too-predictable/ If you have a computer and access to the Internet, you can easily create your very own songwriting guide for free by using valuable songwriting articles and archiving them in a personal binder.  In a previous post I talked about the wealth of free songwriting information on the Internet and how ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/10/16/how-to-create-your-own-personal-songwriting-guide/ If you ever need songwriting help or if you doubt any aspect of your songwriting for whatever reason, there are plenty of free songwriting resources to turn to on the worlwide web.  As much as I'd like to think of this SongwriterAdvisor.com blog and its parent website, SongwriterAdvisor.com as your "one stop shop" ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/10/14/turn-to-songwriting-resources-when-you-doubt-your-skills/ One of the secrets in knowing how to write great songs lies in varying basic songwriting techniques and principles, and in this workshop I'll show you how to add power to your verses with a little technique to add interest and spark to your verses. In a previous workshop, Really Focus On Your ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/10/09/sa-songwriting-workshop-follow-a-long-verse-line-with-a-shorter-one-in-the-prechorus/ Some of the hardest hitting pop songs enlist the talents of star rappers to write rap parts, and without a doubt, the rap parts become integral parts of those songs. For example, the recent hit "American Boy," by Estelle, an English hip hop singer, featured rapper Kanye West doing his thing ... http://songwriteradvisor.com/blog/2008/10/07/how-to-write-rap-parts-for-your-songs/