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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... »

Can You Make a Record In One Month?

By oneoverphi

Go ahead … what’s stop­ping you? That’s the tag-line of The RPM Chal­lenge; a one month, one album chal­lenge in the vein of NaNoW­riMo. This takes place in Feb­ru­ary so you have a lit­tle over two weeks to get your mojo going. This is the chal­lenge: record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs... »

Writer’s Block Will Destroy Us All

By oneoverphi

Writer’s block is a real bitch. I’m try­ing to get some­thing new writ­ten before going to an open stage later this week, but I’m hav­ing a hell of a time. Noth­ing I’m com­ing up with feels inspired enough. Sure I could knock out another three chord trick, or four chord turn­around, but deep within is this nag­ging feel­ing... »

Don’t Get Stuck

By oneoverphi

Mag­netic Fridge poetry! I love this stuff. It forces you to put together thoughts in unex­pected ways. It’s the con­straint on word choice that does it; you have to think of another way to say what you want given the avail­able vocab­u­lary. Arti­fi­cial lim­its are a great way to break writ­ers block or spark creativity. Brian Eno made... »

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