Topic Ideas

Hey all

Here are some more writing topic ideas for you.  Use these as writing prompts to exercise your creativity.  Change it up:  Sometimes you should try to write short songs, or maybe poems, or perhaps sometimes you can write a short story about it instead.  The basic ideas is to get the words flowing out of your brain in creative ways.

Try not to look at them literally (unless of course the literal meaning inspires you!) Twist the meaning of the words… see what you can come up with!

-Write about how well someone else can sing

-Write about your views on the ties between Israel and the USA

-String these random words into a usable topic.  (Try to think outside the box)   – Lavender, My House, Problematic, Ballad, and Spanish

-Write about being a neat freak

-Try to write a Norwegian love song

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Songs and Songwriting

The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.

- Alanis Morissette

Today In Music History

I’m hoping that by reading these facts every day you are inspired by one of the pieces of information  to go out and check out something musically that you may not have thought about had you not read this post.  Maybe you’ll read decide to dig deeper into a piece of history, or you’ll decide to check out a band mentioned in one of the facts.  No matter how this inspires you, I hope you enjoy what you read!

Check back every day at around 6:00 PM Central time for new facts!

1882 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Parsifal,” premieres in Beirut
1938 – 1st radio broadcast of “Young Widder Brown” on NBC
1953 – Cuban pirate radio station’s 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
1990 – Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game
1992 – Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley weds Pamela Bowen

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I found a cool link while I was surfing the web this weekend.  It’s a site called JamStudio.  The site allows you to enter in a chord progression, pick some instruments to play the progression for you, pick the style you want the individual instruments to play in, and it creates a backing track for your music.

It’s really a pretty cool idea.  If you didn’t have the ability or the time to record a full backing track for a song you wrote, you could theoretically use a site like this to create your music for you.

I have to admit that I just tried out the free portion of the site.  It allowed me to create the music, but it didn’t allow me to convert it to an MP3 and download it onto my computer.

It looks like in order to be able to save your songs to MP3 format, it requires a $25 subscription fee, but that fee will last you 6 months, and apparently gets you access to 2 desktop applications to help you write music.

It seems like a fun program to play with.

If you guys want to check it out, the site is located at http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm

http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm

Song Title Ideas

Hello

Here are some more song title ideas. Try not to look at them so literally. Read the idea, and if nothing usable jumps out at you, try to twist it around and look at it from different angles. Keep in mind I’m trying to inspire some creative thought, rather than just trying to give you some free song titles.

-Watery Me

-She Can Not Scare

-Midday’s Excitement

-Chasing After Distrust

-Interior Design

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Today In Music History

Check back every day at around 6:00 PM Central time for new facts!

25/07/1933 – 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
25/07/1964 – Beatles’ “Hard Day’s Night, A,” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks
25/07/1966 – Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
25/07/1973 – George Harrison pays œ1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert and album
25/07/1978 – John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
25/07/1990 – Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
25/07/1997 – Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
25/07/1997 – Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling

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Today In Music History

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24/07/1965 – Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone”
24/07/1965 – Rock group “Animals” 1st time on British charts
24/07/1967 – Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana

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Cover Song Of The Week

I love musical creativity (hence this blog), and I really feel like one interesting way of being musically creative is to take a song that already exists and turn it into your own.  I know it’s not technically “songwriting”, but not all musical creativity is centered around songwriting.

My plan is to share some of my favorite song covers from around the web every weekend.

I love stuff like this… this is a bluegrass cover song of the hip hop song Roses by Outkast.  I really enjoy covers that take a song into a new genre.

The video is fun, too.

Musical Instrument

I like drums, really, if they’re under control.

- Earl Scruggs

Today In Music History

Check back every day at around 6:00 PM Central time for new facts!

23/07/1965 – Beatles “Help” is released in UK
23/07/1967 – Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
23/07/1982 – FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
23/07/1987 – RNI (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
23/07/1992 – Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour

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The information above is gathered from http://www.musicorb.com/.
Check out their site for more information about today, including musicians deaths and births that happened on this date and other great information!