Articles
Songwriting, blocks, theory, and working with a machine without letting it write for you.
Craft · July 14, 2026 · 6 min
The useful part is not the writing. It never was.
An honest map of where an AI chat companion helps a songwriter — feedback, diagnosis, options — and where it quietly makes songs worse.
Process · July 8, 2026 · 6 min
The blank page is not a mood problem. It is an engineering problem.
Why waiting to feel inspired keeps you blocked, and why an arbitrary constraint — one card, ten minutes — gets your hands moving when willpower will not.
Theory · June 30, 2026 · 7 min
Theory courses start at notation. Your questions start mid-song.
Why does this chord work? What key am I in? Why does my progression never land? Plain-language answers to the theory questions that come up mid-song.
Craft · June 22, 2026 · 6 min
Your voice is a stack of deviations. The model exists to remove deviations.
A working musician’s rules for using an AI companion as an editor and mirror without letting a statistical average sand the strangeness off your songs.
Process · June 15, 2026 · 5 min
The marathon session you are planning is why you have not played this week.
Why a nightly ten-minute session with one constraint beats the marathon weekend session you keep planning and postponing.