Vol 1, Issue 7: Creating Music with Mass Appeal

I’m sure by the very title of this piece that some of you are rolling your eyes at the concept of me providing you with guidelines about how to write sellable music. I will give you this: there is no one-to-ten detailed instructional manual outlining how to write the perfect song.
For that matter, I feel [...]

Vol 1, Issue 6: What’s in a Name?

Think back for a moment to highschool English class (yes, I know it may be painful for some of you) when you studied Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and came across the legendary line, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet,” (2.2.1-2.)
Although it’s true that [...]