Writer's Room

Welcome to “The Music Lab,” a new column powered by SongTown and featured in American Songwriter every month.  One of the most noticeable style shifts in songwriting over the last few years is the emergence of chorus-like hooksin...

Welcome to “The Music Lab,” a new Songwriter U column powered by SongTown and featured in American Songwriter every other print issue, and monthly on AmericanSongwriter.com. I’m obsessed...

In times of crisis, I am like a lot of other songwriters who go to the place we always go when we need to make sense of the world — music. Having spent most of my life...

Welcome to “Between The Rhymes,” a new Songwriter U column powered by SongTown and featured in American Songwriter every other print issue, and monthly on AmericanSongwriter.com. This column...

Dave had his share of special and unique ideas about the nature of songs and songwriting that he shared mostly with friends and loved ones.

“How do I get my music placed in TV and film?” is a question songwriters often ask. Well, here’s your chance to listen and learn straight from the source. The AIMP/Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) is hosting...

Have you heard of the mysterious Nashville Number System and always wondered exactly what it is? Can it help increase your musical skills and help you better communicate to professional musicians? Larry Beaird, owner of Beaird...

The inverse use of the first-person has influenced so much modern songwriting.

“Even protest songs are love songs,” said P.F. Sloan.

As soon as you ignore that you are momentarily derailed and conclude instead that you are actually blocked, it becomes impossible to proceed.