{"id":2717,"date":"2010-05-03T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-03T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:26:02","slug":"songwriting-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songwriting-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Songwriting 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt occurred to me that George Harrison<\/strong> wrote at least two songs on the art of songwriting, “This Song” (check out the “humorous” promotional video that one of those soft serves who don’t allow embedded videos from YouTube has posted here<\/a>) and “It’s Only a Northern Song.” Traffic<\/strong> has that song every songwriter can relate to, “Empty Pages.” Collectively I’m sure we can list a hundred songs on the art of songwriting, but rather than turn this into another Last Man Standing<\/strong>, let’s share what have these songs taught us about songwriting and the songwriter of each song?<\/em> For instance, Harrison’s songs about songwriting teach us that it’s not brain surgery, that it can be as much a matter of punching the clock than it is inspiration, that there’s no point in overthinking a song…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

nf3SnYdKLYM] It occurred to me that George Harrison wrote at least two songs on the art of songwriting, “This Song” (check out the “humorous” promotional video that one of those soft serves who don’t allow embedded videos from YouTube has posted here) and “It’s Only a Northern Song.” Traffic has that song every songwriter can […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}