by Ed Bell | Dec 18, 2020 | Building a Career, Inspiration
In March this year, The Song Foundry Inc., the business behind the site, turned five. And to celebrate five years of running a real grownup company, I’d planned an article about some of the things I’d learned in that time. But then (spoiler alert) the world went a bit...
by Ed Bell | Dec 11, 2020 | Inspiration, The Creative Habit
If you’ve, say, ever tried creating something new, you’ll know about writer’s block and procrastination. So before we get started, here are two important provisos: One: writer’s block isn’t really a thing. Seriously. You’re blocked...
by Ed Bell | Nov 20, 2020 | Building a Career, Inspiration
I don’t usually like to blow my own trumpet, but I’ll just say it: I’m good at a lot of things. I can sit on the floor in front of a piano, cross my hands behind my head and play the opening of Mozart’s C Major Piano Sonata. I know the Spanish word for ‘dude’ in like...
by Ed Bell | Nov 16, 2020 | Lyric Tools, Music Tools
This is article is based on my book How to Write a Song (Even If You’ve Never Written One Before and You Think You Suck). You can also explore this process in even more detail in my new How to Write a Song Video Course. How do you write a song? It’s a...
by Ed Bell | Jun 19, 2020 | Building a Career, Inspiration
So I don’t know if you noticed, but there’s a global pandemic going on right now. The bad news for all kinds of musicians and performers is that there’s not likely to be any in-person concerts and events happening any time soon. But the good news is that there’s...
