Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Rhyming used to seem like such a simple business. You wrote your line, looked for a word that rhymed perfectly with the last word of the line, came up with a line that ended with that word and hey presto – a rhyming couplet. Here’s one – “I think that you’ve been very brave, I’ll take your secret to the grave.” Previously I would have been less happy with an imperfect rhyme, like; “I think that you’ve been very brave, They’ll live to see much better days.” This isn’t far off as rhymes go but until recently I would be thinking that I could get a closer rhyme and that closer equalled better.
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lyrics,
rhyme,
writing
It’s never been easier to make a demo, but…
There’s no doubt that the technology available to songwriters these days makes it easier than ever to make good quality demos of our songs. The technology ranges from free open source applications like Audacity to expensive digital audio workstations (DAWs) like Cubase, Logic and Ableton Live. I’ve been using a second hand version of Cubase (SX2) that I bought on eBay for a few years now and it’s great. [Click to continue…]
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demos,
recording,
technology
Every sales book I ever read started the same way
I got my first job in sales many years ago. I didn’t know anything about selling and I thought I should, so I bought a book on the subject. In the many years since then I have had many jobs that involved selling (including the songwriting job, of course) and I have bought many more sales books to try to improve my selling skills. Here’s the thing; every single one of those books started with one or more chapters on motivation, organisation, goal setting or similar. When I started off, this drove me mad. “Just tell me how to sell things to people”, I thought. Tell me what to say, give me a step by step process to sell things and I’ll be fine. But I just didn’t understand.
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action,
NLP,
psychology,
visualisation
