by Ed Bell | Jul 2, 2015 | Lyric Tools
The best way to plant something in someone’s brain is repetition. Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. See? Our minds are hard-wired that way. A lyrical hook is the principal way you can use repetition to glue an entire lyric together. For giving it focus –...
by Ed Bell | Jun 10, 2015 | The Creative Habit
So many young artists get comfortable defining themselves as the next someone else. ‘I want to be the next Taylor Swift.’ ‘I’m gonna be the new Jay Z.’ ‘I’m trying to be the next Michael Jackson.’ It’s painful to...
by Ed Bell | Jun 3, 2015 | Lyric Tools, Music Tools
Structure in songwriting is all about the sections your song is made out of – how those sections repeat and fit together according to some kind of grand masterplan. And while there are lots of structures a song can take, some are more popular than others. This article...
by Ed Bell | May 29, 2015 | Cool Stuff, The Creative Habit
I never let my schooling interfere with my education. MARK TWAIN A wonderful education is a wonderful thing. The more we know, the more possibilities open up. The more we train our minds, the more we can do with them. But sometimes education becomes schooling. It...
