Songwriting for Beginners

We talked tips and tricks for beginner songwriters. Our producer Vanessa and techie Micah also joined in the conversation. Some of the stuff we covered included:

* Our Rocketman movie pre-screening contest

* How Phil and Neel got started on songwriting, and the challenges they faced

* Get yourself a decent guitar to start on (or a ukulele!)

* Basic melody development

* The benefits of collaboration

* Writing from a title, or a poem

* How to take apart your favourite songs

* How practice makes perfect better

* How to finish songs

* Writing a bad first draft, because you won’t be awesome right away

* Vanessa’s post about stuff she’s learned on the show

* We won a spot on FeedSpot’s Top 20 Songwriting Podcasts!

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