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Respect The Form of a Song

By oneoverphi

Where has the time gone? Between work, fam­ily, and  out­side projects I’m afraid I’ve neglected to post. Well it’s time to rem­edy this. The past two months have been quite busy for me. I’ve been writ­ing up a storm of songs, though few are com­plete. There are miss­ing lyrics here, unfin­ished arrange­ments there, and now... »

Redeem Your Lyrics With a Memopad

By oneoverphi

I am con­stantly jot­ting down lines on any scrap that I can get my hands on, receipts, envelopes, nap­kins. My pock­ets would be stuffed with gems, which I would invari­ably lose. To rem­edy the dis­si­pa­tion of my for­tune I invested in a cheap memo-pad. True I could have sprung for a mole­sk­ine. I’ve used them before and quite enjoy the... »

Make Your Songs the Best

By oneoverphi

Do you need to take your song­writ­ing to the next level? If so then you ought to go to Bill Pere’s Song­writ­ing Tools and pick up some solid advice. Don’t let the circa ’95 web­de­sign scare you off. Scroll down a lit­tle to see a trea­sure trove of .pdf’s with great infor­ma­tion. Top­ics focus on writ­ing... »

NO to Angst">Say NO to Angst

By oneoverphi

The fol­low­ing is just a short list of words whose inclu­sion in lyrics I feel should be seri­ously con­sid­ered, rather than hap­haz­ardly sprin­kled in. While some are overused, oth­ers too obvi­ous, most are blunt and do not con­vey any crafts­man­ship that may be present in the lyrics. In short, they’re a turnoff. As soon as I hear one of these... »

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