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August 7, 2011

This is a test post to verify that the new songwritersinseattle.com website is functional. Lots more to follow - stay tuned!

Seeking Emotional Feel in Your Songwriting

So for this month I have decided to write about creating music that tells a story or at least generates a specific type of feeling or emotion. It seems to me that I frequently encounter songwriters who have a melody and some great lyrics, but the…

Anatomy of a song – Sun Tunnels “Saturday”

Cast your mind back to the year 2000. Remember it? I do, some of it, and one thing I did late that year and early 2001 was to write a song called "Saturday." "Saturday" is one of the more upbeat songs I've come up with, though the lyrics are a…

Music Biz – What To Do Next? Part 2: Marketing

Now that you have your music in your hand you have a tangible product to sell. One VERY important thing to remember is that you are not selling simply music, you are selling yourself. Next up are most likely the hardest, most time consuming, the…

Stage Presence Basic Training

When I went through army basic training one of the exercises was to enter an enclosed room and get "gassed" (tear gas unfortunately). After entering the room and doing several drills with our pro-mask (gas-mask) we were finally told to take it off,…