I’m sure there have been times where you feel like you just can’t write ANYTHING. It’s like, the more you force it out the less you seem to create. And then when you DO finally write something — ANYTHING (a chord, a lyric, a melody or even just a scratch of an idea) you automatically reject that because you think it’s a crappy one.
George Harrison’s 10 Best Beatles Songs
George Harrison is often referred to as the “quiet Beatle” and sometimes sadly even as the “forgotten Beatle” and that’s due to the fact that he was in the same band as the greatest songwriting team in popular music history. Lennon/McCartney were good enough to overshadow almost anyone but that being the case Harrison wrote many great songs with The Beatles and that’s what this article is set to highlight.
Fiction And Folk – Making Filk Music Together
The word “Filk” is a combination of “fiction” and “folk.” Filk music originated as songs composed by dedicated film or TV fans, usually relating to science fiction and fantasy programming. The word originated in the ’50s in an article about the practice of science fiction fans singing self-created songs while meeting at conventions geared for the sci-fi and fantasy fan.
So You Wanna Make Music and Change The World?
If you want to make music that changes the world, don’t just be the latest kid on the block, the latest rapper in the hood, the latest rocker in the backstreet clubs. Do this….
Songwriter Confessions #1
Looking up this week from getting a reggae backing to sound like St Ann rather than St Felicity, I spotted the small dark mist in the usual corner behind the left monitor speaker. I have sometimes believed absolutely that this is my best muse, back from a pizza run to the outer starbelt. Or maybe just the golden ring around Uranus. Anyhoo…It seems to bring inspiration in a dark way: more Keith Richards than Cliff Richard, and I feel the urge to write something that involves…