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AboutI really love to write songs. And I've done it for over 30 years. I've recorded several albums, toured all over and even won the odd award or two. Mid 1999 I was invited to write some articles for the very cool magazine New Zealand Musician and I wrote about songwriting. I had to sit down and figure out how to describe what I did. It made me read the limited number of books then available about songwriting and talk to other songwriters, and I realised there wasn't a lot of material that people could really connect with. As the web's influence grew, this began to change. The NZ Music Commission was born and began to shoulder tap professional musicians (including me) to offer blocks of 5 workshops in high schools around the country to students who might actually want to learn about songwriting. This was an opportunity to work in my favourite sphere with teenagers who loved songs and wanted to learn more, fast. Most of the music departments I went to had absolutely no idea how to teach songwriting, or even that they could. And I started to put into practice what I'd written about.
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Over the last decade or so, I've worked with hundreds of folks from school kids to seniors, helping them fix the songs that are broken, learning how to diagnose song 'sickness', maladies of melodies, lameness of lyrics, and helping them heal. And like any physician, I've had to learn to heal myself! Let me help you write better songs. |