How to Eliminate the Overwhelm of Unlimited Lyrical & Musical Choices in Your Songwriting

As songwriters, we are beset with a nearly endless number of decisions and the options for each choice can seem limitless. How do we know we’re making good decisions?

In this video, I present a straightforward philosophy on decision-making geared specifically for songwriters. It has become foundational in my approach to how I write songs, and is the very first core principle that I teach all of my songwriting students.

0:44 Too many choices
1:20 The many hats of the modern songwriter
1:43 Feeling overwhelmed
1:54 The Chaos-Perfectionism Spectrum
3:35 There is no such thing as a wrong decision
4:13 Informed Decisions
6:52 Intentional Decisions

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