Month: January 2022

Why Do You Write Songs?

So this was a message I heard today about the difference between a pro songwriter and an amateur songwriter. If you’re amateur you write the song first, pro has a reason for writing the song. As Paul McCartney  said in a radio interview in 2006 “we were trying to write hit songs” at the beginning.…
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January 26, 2022 0

Song Reviews, John Prine, Summer’s End

John Prine, Summer’s End Here’s my breakdown so far of Summer’s End: Key of D (video has him playing capo 2 (key of C) So in C: notes would be: C Dm Em F G Am _           FORM: Intro-4 bars Verse-8 (drums start here) V-8 (start to hear some violin underneath-slowly builds to violin solo(ish))…
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January 14, 2022 0