I recently finished a fascinating book called The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Song Factory by John Seabrook.
It’s a very readable account of modern pop music from the late 90s until 2015. Better still it contains compelling details from a lot of the main players responsible for some of the biggest hits in the last 20 years. Definitely worth a read even if you’re not a pop music fan.
(Want to improve your song writing? Take a look at my free 10-week songwriting mini-course.) Lists of songwriting tips are great … but what I wanted to compile was a list of real game changing tips that if you action Read more…
Do I need to get my music mastered? Yes. End of blog, I’m off to grab a coffee. Okay, you’re still here. I can see that you’re going to need more than that to be convinced. First of all, who Read more…
I find the Billboard Hot 100 end of year charts fascinating. I’ve done a lot of research to try and understand why some songs become number ones. Typically it’s not just for musical and lyrical reasons. Having a song in Read more…
In the most basic sense mixing is taking many individual tracks and combining them together (mixing) to create a stereo version of the song. This is the “knob twiddling” part where you’re making sure all of the different elements that Read more…