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Author: Clay Mills

  • 5 Ways To Break Out Of Your Writing Rut And Spark New Songs

    Posted on May 20, 2020 by Clay Mills

      One of the hardest things a songwriter has to learn to level-up their writing is learning how to avoid or pull themselves out of a songwriting rut. Here are 5 things I've learned over my 25-year career that have me avoid songwriting ruts and stay inspired... Switch instruments to spark...

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  • How To Write Commercial Songs – Without Selling Your Soul

    Posted on May 20, 2020 by Clay Mills

      Often songwriters in our SongTown classes ask, "How do I write commercial songs without selling out?" They are writers who would like to have commercial success and hear one of their songs on the radio or an album. But they want to know how to accomplish this and still be...

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  • Songwriters: Do You really need that expensive and over-produced song demo?

    Posted on May 20, 2020 by Clay Mills

    This is one of the most common questions Marty and I get in the SongTown Mailbox. It seems a common myth exists that says in order to have a record company or artist pick up your songs, you have to produce a song demo that...

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  • 5 Songwriting Lessons From Master Yoda

    Posted on May 1, 2020 by Clay Mills

    Want to become a Master "Songwriting" Yoda? Here are my top 5 tips!   1.Believe As creative people, we tend to be self-doubters. It's what drives us to look inward, to constantly question life around us, and, if channeled properly, will drive us to write great songs. It's perfectly natural to struggle...

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  • Songwriting Tips For Co-Writing On Zoom

    Posted on April 22, 2020 by Clay Mills

    As a long time professional songwriter, what used to be an occasional tool for co-writing long-distance, has turned into an everyday affair. In these days of social distancing, co-writing on Zoom has become the norm for scores of creatives around the world. And as...

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  • Songwriters And Artists: Are Your Songs Real or Really Clever?

    Posted on April 14, 2020 by Clay Mills

      Perhaps the most common songwriting mistake that I've seen kill a song... If I had to choose one songwriting mistake I've seen over and over in mentoring sessions through the years, it would be "writing clever instead of writing real." Throughout the entire writing process I am asking myself, does this feel real?...

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  • Recording At Home: Demo Process For The #1 Hit “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”

    Posted on April 11, 2020 by Clay Mills

      People often ask me if they have to do full-production demos to present songs to publishers or major artist? I do a fair amount of full demos, but I also have had about half of my major cuts from pitching home demos done on a very basic set-up on...

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  • It’s Not the World’s Responsibility To “Get You” or “Get Your Music”

    Posted on April 4, 2020 by Clay Mills

                  I was in Starbucks last week enjoying my morning dose of inspiration—COFFEE!—and an aspiring songwriter approached me. “Are you Clay from SongTown?” “Yes,” I said. He asked if he could chat about writing for a couple of minutes. Then he began by saying, “I’m writing some great...

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  • Songwriters: Formatting Lyric Sheets Like A Pro

    Posted on April 3, 2020 by Clay Mills

      One of the most overlooked details in the songwriting business is properly formatting your lyric sheets. Since starting SongTown, hitmaker Marty Dodson  and I have had the chance to see many songs lyrics presented in our publisher groups, song contests, and song feedback forums on songtown.com. We've seen some...

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  • Your Ticket Into The Music Business: Writing Better Songs

    Posted on March 20, 2020 by Clay Mills

      Marty Dodson and I spend a lot of time preaching the gospel of “writing better songs.” Each time we blog about the power of a great song, we inevitably get several emphatic comments stating something like this: "I have lots of great songs, but I don’t have the connections you...

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How Do I Submit Songs As A Songwriter To The Music Business? (Updated- 2021)

by Marty Dodson on January 23, 2021

  There seems to be a lot of confusion out there over the question "As a songwriter, how do I submit songs to the music business?" The truth of the matter is that there is no one way to "submit" songs to the music business. When you simplify the "song submission"...

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The “Instant Melancholy” Chord Substitution

by Clay Mills on January 18, 2021

The Melancholy Chord Substitution. I’ve been blessed to get away with some interesting chord changes over the course of my songwriting career. Those songs found their way onto pop and country mainstream radio—two formats that, right or wrong, have a rap for simple chords.   Whether it was sneaking in a...

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by Marty Dodson on January 13, 2021

I don't know how many times each week I hear the words "It's impossible". The ridiculous part of it all is that the things they are saying are "impossible" are not impossible at all. Well, let's just do a little songwriting myth busting! "It's impossible to get a song cut...

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