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If you’ve ever been in a choral group or taken voice lessons, there is a permanent choir director in your head that will bully you for failing to properly warm up. Trying to execute a big chesty belt ...

You might think that one half of the songwriting team that rapidly created some of popular music’s most important songs at a rate that has largely been unmatched by any other artist would have ...

We fear the things we don’t understand. Songwriting can be mysterious and magical. It’s hard to explain what makes a song great when we can simply feel it. But songwriting can be explained. If you ...

You're out with friends at karaoke. Your turn is next. But dang, you still don't know what song to sing, and you're not a great singer. What's more, someone just nailed "You Oughta Know" by Alanis ...