Does your guitar fretting hand ever hurt from playing too much? Here are 4 easy guitar lessons that can help relieve fretting hand pain. I love playing guitar. I love playing it so much that I used to play up to 6 hours at a time (with some breaks) as a street musician. I hurt my fretting […]
Tip 4 – Write out one full sheet of lyrics with the song’s melodies in your head without stoping, critiquing or editing it. Listen to the recorded ideas of your song, or play it on your instrument and get it inside your head. Sing the song in your head […]
Thanks for tuning in to Tip 3 of my “How To Focus On Songwriting” series. If you are just joining us, I would like to encourage you to start off in the beginning of the series at how to focus on songwriting tip 1. The last two weeks, we have worked to get new song ideas down […]
Last week I wrote a blog on how to focus on songwriting tip 1. The challenge was to record 3 or more melodies or progression ideas per day. How did you do? I did good. Not perfect. This is how many ideas I recorded. Sunday – 5 Monday – 5 Tuesday – 4 Wednesday […]
Tip 1 Record 3 or more spontaneous, unedited, stream of conscious melodies or progression ideas on your iPhone voice memos or portable recording device per day. Music is such a big all-encompassing thing. From the instruments, branding, mixing, producing, marketing, social scenes, bios, performing, artistry, practice, image . . . and the list goes on. Lately, […]
I sing and perform almost every night and it took me a few years how to learn how to do it without physically hurting my chords, keeping my stamina up while really connecting to the crowd. One thing I try to do a lot now is sing softly. Granted this isn’t for all parts of […]