Oblique Strategies contains prompts like "use fewer notes", "be dirty" or "mute and continue", plus our favourite: "take a ...

Rodney Alejandro, a songwriting professor at the Berklee College of Music, took WBZ-TV's Mike Sullivan through the creative ...

Country music has always been a genre that puts a large emphasis on lyrical subtext, structure, and story. That being so, some of the best-written songs of all time have come from the genre.

These five ChatGPT prompts will help you unlock insights you might be missing about your next chapter. Your work patterns reveal more than you think. The projects that light you up, the tasks you ...

It works in theory, but as Tom Waits discusses, there are elements of songwriting that are lost without the studio. “It’s a very mechanical process, putting a record together. You could say it starts ...

While her songwriting process increasingly pulls from different sonic influences, Neve’s approach to painting follows a similar pattern, often depending on visual prompts. She tends to collect images ...

A “Simpsons” voice actor is concerned about A.I. coming for his work. Should we all be? By Jeremy Engle Tell a story, real or made up, that connects three or more of the elements in this image ...

The first component of a successful AI art prompt is clarity in the query. A clear prompt ensures that Copilot understands exactly what you want to create. Rather than using vague or ambiguous ...

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 ...

These five ChatGPT prompts will help you escape the overthinking trap and start taking audacious, decisive action. Copy, paste, and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat ...

At our Q&A Workshop for American Songwriter Membership, David Gray shared the details of his songwriting process and how time can be a great collaborator: AS: What was the songwriting like on this ...