Songwriting For Guitar Podcast

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I was talking with a songwriter about their co-writes, and the more questions I asked, the more I realized they'd never actually met their co-writer. No Zoom, no room. Just email.

Y'all... that's not co-writing. In this episode I get into why email co-writes have you finishing songs at a snail's pace (if you finish them at all). I talk about what my first 600 co-writes taught me about melody, speed, and getting to quality through quantity. I also explain why the messy, uncomfortable moments in the room are where the gems show up.

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Ever feel like you should be further along on guitar by now?

You're not alone. Marin Music's Stuart Lehman-Brown (1M+ subscribers) joins me for his first ever podcast to talk about the messy middle: that stretch where guitar and songwriting get hard, and most people quit.

We get into why Stuart almost gave up, the one sentence from a dad that crushed a kid's love of guitar, why the pros sing gibberish in the studio, the "write 5 more songs" lesson, and the thought that nearly stopped Stuart for good "If it was meant to be, it wouldn't be this hard."

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Sync isn't where songs go when they didn't work anywhere else. Geoff Duncan (SFG coach and sync producer) and I get real about what it actually takes: listening to what's getting placed, never pitching a near-miss, and the song that sat for four years before landing Abbott Elementary.

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I never got work because I was the best guitarist in the room. I got work because I was a guitarist AND I could do the next thing.

Everyone walking into a co-write says the same two things: lyrics are my strength, or melody is my strength. So how do you create separation? You pair. In this episode I break down the AND — what it is, why most writers never build one, how to find yours without signing up for another forty courses, and the three questions that tell you what yours already is.

Your skill gets you into the room. Your AND is what keeps you in the room.

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Ever write a song that just doesn't land, and you can't figure out why?

Try the Three Room Test: split your song into lyrics, melody, and chords, and check if each one delivers the same feeling on its own. Nine times out of ten, one room is sending a completely different message than the other two, and that's your real problem, not the mix.

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