Articles
Songwriting, blocks, theory, and working with a machine without letting it write for you.
Process · August 1, 2026 · 8 min
A song becomes manageable when each pass has one job.
Use a repeatable songwriting process to choose a starting point, develop sections, revise with purpose, and finish a draft you can assess.
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.