Latest about Music Theory And Songwriting
How to write better songs by understanding how song forms work
All the theory in the world can’t make you a competent songwriter, to make a song work you need to understand how common song-forms engage listeners
Finneas on how he and Billie Eilish made a conscious effort to make Birds Of A Feather sound “timeless”
“The drums on this song - real and programmed - all have a kind of organic feel,” he explains
How to use tried and tested chord progressions when crafting your song
Lets draw some harmonic inspiration and top-tips from the past-masters.
Exploding the vibrant components of hyperpop
This particular genre has certainly surpassed its DIY beginnings to influence a surprising number of top artists.
How to understand and use suspended chords
"Sometimes you don't want to be overtly happy or sad and a suspended chord strikes that perfect balance"
“What? How did you even get there!?”: Songwriter Julia Michaels on Sabrina Carpenter’s nonsense lyics
“A lot of the time I feel like it’s hard to tell someone’s personality through their music, and with her you know exactly what you’re getting,” she says
"Nothing is good enough”: Billy Joel explains to John Mayer why he gave up on songwriting
“The writer thing is a curse you take with you throughout life, and when I listen to material or listen to other people’s songs the writer is always at work,” he says
Was John Lennon a good guitarist? And does it really matter?
"When the worst instrumentalist in your group is John Lennon, you’ve got a pretty good group”
