Hit Songs and Creativity: APME Reflection
Jun 16, 2025
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From June 4-8, I attended the Association for Popular Music Education (APME) conference in Memphis, TN โ hosted by the University of Memphis. For those who donโt know, Iโve been a long-time member of APME โ I was on their board from 2014-2020, and in the last four years of my term, served as both Vi...
Why Lyrics are Both Easy and Hard
Oct 14, 2023
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For whatever reason, lyrics seem to be both the easiest way into songwriting as well as the most challenging. Easy because they access language that we already have - no need for harmonic or melodic vocabulary - but hard because there just isn't a lot of real estate to say everything you want to ...