The meaning of your lyric depends on which word gets the emphasis. For example, the phrase “I’m going to the store” could mean: I’M going to the store (not you, me) I’m GOING to the store (in motion, on the move) I’m going TO the store (not away from it) I’m going to THE …
Songwriting – the big picture
I’ve given a course on songwriting and presented a few talks on aspects of it to various groups. While I haven’t published anything formally, I wanted to use this blog to at least give the main points of my approach. Whenever a songwriter comes in the studio with a song that may need a bit …
Errors and Such
I’m going to talk about audio CD’s, even though it’s becoming less and less common to use a mechanical device to play music. Whenever someone finishes a project with me and needs somthing on disc, they get a data DVD as well as the audio CD master. The data DVD contains all of the files …
The gist of my “music is free” speech
Anyone who’s recorded with me has heard this. But in case you should need a refresher course, here it is. In the mind of the public, music is free. There are many reasons to record and publish music that don’t have anything to do with making money, but IMO if you want to make money …
Buzzsonic
If you have never heard of this site, I can understand. Just know that it is a HUGE resource for some great information. Click here for the main blog page. The curated blog page is a list of over 250 posts going back over 10 years. Some of the topics may be dated, but many …
Production and Copyright – Don’t Give It Away
I have talked to many of my clients about the line between music production and cowriting. You probably all know my views on this, but I wanted to put my rant into a blog as a reference. Hopefully this will help someone from making a bad mistake. A lot of my clients have songs in …
How Not To Destroy Your Audio
Everything is geared nowadays for communicating over the internet and mobile devices. The most common format for music is the MP3 file (although it has officially been abandoned by its creators). It is still universally used and is great for sending in an email and it sounds pretty good. But there are some things that …