by Ed Bell | Oct 16, 2015 | Lyric Tools, Music Tools
Don’t get too excited. It’s time for post containing what I like to call Dadvice. You know what I’m talking about. Advice that’s mostly mundane but eminently practical. The kind of resent precisely because you know it’s worth bearing in...
by Ed Bell | Aug 12, 2015 | Music Tools
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. E. Y. HARBURG Music is the most abstract of the arts. It affects us not on an intellectual, rational level but on a deep, instinctual level. It washes over us and...
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...
