Whether you write pop, hip-hop, acoustic or EDM, if you want to produce, record and release music you’ll need a DAW, or Digital Audio Workstation. Here’s our quick roundup of all the big names in home-studio music production.

Being an artist is about creating something new. But the only way to create something new is to understand the old.

Ultimately, success as a professional songwriter comes down to one thing – and it’s not just how talented you are.

Verse-Chorus form is the bread and butter of songwriting structure: dependable, popular and versatile. Here’s how it does what it does.

It’s more important you finish one crappy song than leave twenty songs unfinished. And the truth about how to finish a song: keep writing until the whole song exists.