On Songwriting 11 The basic tools
I was asked for some advice on songwriting for beginners. So I thought I’d write down few things here to help you get started. I took the long road. When I started to write songs back in my early teens,…
August 12, 2015
On Songwriting Part 7
In the wise words of Tom Waits “For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and…
New album “Read Between The Lines”
I love writing. I love writing songs and I love writing blog posts. But the one time I always hit a brick wall is when I need to write about my own releases. I am fully aware you are supposed…
John Moreland, In The Throes
Once again I got some music recommended to me through Twitter, keep ’em coming 😉 I was completely new to John Moreland’s music few weeks ago, so after checking out few tracks online, decided to purchase his latest album “In…
Ted Talks every musician should watch
Ted Talk’s have been around a long time now and some of the greatest innovators of every field have given their insides on numerous subjects. There are some that stood out to me as informative and inspirational as a musician….
Compulsive Songwriting Disorder
I sneaked out a version of this weeks song the day I wrote it, but here is the album version. This song happened one day as I was stuck for song ideas and procrastination took over, so I started watching…
The power of a sad song
Posted at February 27, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Songwriting
While writing the music for my latest album, Northern Boy, I noticed that most of the songs I was coming up with were quite sad songs. In fact I would also notice my self favoring the sadder ones over the…
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