Stop The Insanity-Hire Someone To Write A Jingle!Many years ago, in a far away place and time, companies wishing to promote their wares on television would hire songwriters to develop advertising jing..

I used to drink with a depressed friend and early influence, the late protest singer Phil Ochs. He seemed to have everything with his notoriety and famous topical songs and ballads like “Changes..

Motivation ensures that things get done and that first efforts are followed up by additions, revisions, and expansions. Songwriters can get caught in the trap of falling in love with the first draft, ..

Iambic Tetrameter in poetry is the simplest form of rhyme scheme. It's also the mainstay of rap; you may have noticed the similarity of rap lines to the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in which the seco..

When I read the monthly reports on my online music sales, I see that the downloads have yielded amounts in fractions of a penny, about one and a half cents each song, for a total of a dollar forty-sev..