Coaching

Hooks are addictive, and that’s a good thing.

If you've turned on the radio over the last quarter century then you have heard something that Victoria Shaw has written. Her No. 1 songs include Garth Brooks "THE RIVER" (which we recently did...

Registration is open for Rodney Crowell’s "Adventures in Song" camp, an immersive four-day event in Nashville that rigorously explores the craft of songwriting with some of the art form’s greatest practitioners. The camp, which...

The Eagles recently announced they will play their ‘Hotel California’ album in its entirety on their upcoming tour dates. Title track "Hotel California" is among the greatest, most recognized guitar tracks of all-time, simply put:...

As a first-person narrator, you’re wearing blinders.

You may have seen one of the various online videos in which a musician will demonstrate ‘100 songs in 4 minutes’ or ‘play 50 songs with only these 4 chords’ and so on. There is a...

Empathy and pain matter, but without sincerity, no song will be believable.

You need to choose wisely.

Songwriting is one of the last refuges of humanity in an increasingly mechanized world.

How many times have you wanted to say broken heart in a song you are writing?