How to write songs and the creative process
Before the good, the bad. Over on wikihow, the entry on How to write a song has this as the first entry.
1. Learn Music Theory.
No Way! Learn music theory. Never would have imagined that. Wow. So – What does the entry for how to cook say? Go to cooking school? Totally lame.
The good: Metafilter had a gem of a post recently on song writing. Pulling from the comments you’ll find a new NYT blog by songwriters about their creative process, NPR’s All songs considered project (Pros write a song in 48 hours), The freshman experiment about people writing a musical.