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A songwriting course that starts before the first gig There’s a 10-week beginner songwriting course for ages 12 - 18 coming to Bristol Beacon, and I like that it’s happening in The Cellars’ Sound Studios rather than some terrifying room labelled “creative dev...
כשההפקה יודעת לא להפריע לשיר יש שירים שלא מנסים לכבוש את החדר. הם פשוט משאירים בו מקום. ב״נס״ של רונה קינן, התחושה הזאת נוצרת גם דרך ההפקה: הקול והטקסט נשארים במרכז, בלי שכבות שמבקשות להוכיח כמה עבודה הושקעה מאחוריהם. זה נשמע אינטימי, אבל לא קטן. להפך, יש בזה...
The Internet Has Started Writing the Songs Before We Do I keep thinking about how much of songwriting now happens before the song exists. Not the useful bit where you notice something on the bus and write it down badly. I mean the invisible audience that arri...
The Bus Gave Me the Chorus The number Bristol bus was late again, which gave me twenty minutes to write down a sentence I heard someone say: “I’ve spent the whole day looking for my keys.” It is now the best line in the song. Not because it is clever. It soun...
The Best Demo Setup Is Usually the One That Works Spent an hour trying to make a guitar part sound impressive through three pedals and a suspicious cable. Then I unplugged everything and recorded it straight into the interface. It was better. Less noise, fewe...