How To Write An Album A Year With Ease
How To Write An Album A Year With Ease Francesca de Valence, Founder June 2021 Are you a songwriter who has hundreds of song ideas captured on your phone? Voice memos of melody ideas, verse ideas, banger chorus ideas that came to you in an inspired moment? Or maybe you've got a book filled with lyric ideas that you have great intentions of going back to so you can one day write
What’s the Next Step in Your Songwriting Journey?
What's the Next Step in Your Songwriting Journey? Francesca de Valence, Founder March 2021 To get to where you want to be in your songwriting journey, writing the songs you want to write, having the successes you wish to have, you need to know three things: Where you are at now What your dream destination is What the next steps are to take to get you where you want to be If
Hiatus
Hiatus Mardi Lumsden, Brisbane April 2020 Mardi Lumsden's artist hiatus resembles nurturement: filled with making music, travels to Italy and Bali (whilst writing music) and growing a family. Her new album "Hiatus", co-produced with her husband and friend of I Heart Songwriting Club, Pennay, features four song creations born out of I Heart Songwriting Club challenges. In this Artist Feature blog for "Hiatus," the long-time member reveals some heartfelt song insights from
The Time Is Now
The Time Is Now Helen Perris, Sydney October 2019 'The Time Is Now' is a song that lit a fire in me that wouldn’t be extinguished. So I knew it wasn’t enough to submit it and then let it be otherwise unheard. The message was too important... The theme for the week was “dashing.” I sat at home, contemplating my child’s attendance at the School Strike for Climate. I was struck by
Levelling Up
Levelling Up Carla Thursday, Brisbane May 2019 My debut single, Paper Cut, comes out today! Is this even real life? I am living my wildest creative dreams and levelling up! Though I didn’t realise it at the time, my songwriting journey began long before joining the I Heart Songwriting Club. I studied music through school and then at university, and a lot of our work covered ‘songwriting’, but it was always songwriting
How Writing Songs Every Week Helped Me Let Go
How Writing Songs Every Week Helped Me Let Go Lauren Lucille, London April 2019 In the past, I would only write when the inspiration came, if a song was falling out of me if a tune or some lyrics came to me. And if it was too hard to finish, I wouldn't finish it. Four out of the twelve songs from my upcoming album “Let Go” were written as part of I
Boom Crash Opera
Boom Crash Opera Holly Austin, Melbourne February 2019 Through I Heart Songwriting Club, I wrote a song, Bittersweet, that has now ended up as the credit music for our short film "Butch". I called myself Liarbird because I beatbox, and lyrebirds are amazing mimics. They are the beatboxers of the wild! My real name is Holly Austin, and I'm also an actor. Although I've played music since I was very young and
The Story of “Infinity”…
The Story of “Infinity”... Hannah Ana, Brisbane, AUS January 2019 The story of 'Infinity' took 8 Years & 3 Continents to make happen. The journey to my first ever music release has been anything but straightforward. Let’s start from the beginning, shall we? I’ve been a member of I Heart Songwriting Club since January 2017, and when I first joined, my goal was to simply improve my songwriting and connect with my
No Such Thing As “Too Late”
No Such Thing As "Too Late" Julie Peacock, Brisbane, AUS November 2018 Sometimes in life when you open yourself to a possibility, you get a surprise and find what you’ve been looking for. That’s what happened for me when I joined I Heart Songwriting Club. It was a key that opened a door for me, at a time when I might have easily thought I’d left it too late. When our good
The Thief Who Stole My Creative Confidence
The Thief Who Stole My Creative Confidence Mishell Jones, Brisbane, AUS September 2018 F - A - B flat. These three little chords were destined to become the building blocks of my creative confidence and first-ever real song. Written by me, for me, and about me. But I didn’t know that yet when I was just starting to do a little bit of singing here and there in no-audition-necessary community choirs and
