Hey everyone. Thanks for waiting until the end of the week for this one. Let’s give it a listen, look at the lyrics, and then dive into how I wrote it right away. Listen here: Blog Post Songs Month 7 by Matt Whitehead Music Lyrics You did itYou made it through another weekAll by yourself …
Hey everyone. This week’s post and song is a short one that is about something we don’t show enough to ourselves and each other; gratitude and kindness. This is a very short song I called “I’m Proud Of You”. Let’s give it a listen then discuss it. Listen here: Blog Post Songs Month 6 …
Good morning and happy Monday, everyone. This week’s song and post is from my pseudo musical I’ve been working on and is a song about something I love; coffee. Let’s give it a listen right away. This track is aptly called “Coffee”. Listen here: Blog Post Songs Month 6 by Matt Whitehead Music This track …
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Hey everyone. Thanks again for stopping in and taking time out of your busy schedule to give a read and a listen to my work. This week is about writing a song in the style of AC/DC. If you haven’t heard of them, I don’t believe you. AC/DC doesn’t need a description; just listen to …
Discussion and example on how to write your own similar song to “Burn It To The Ground” by Nickelback.
Hey everyone. There has been some amazing music released this October. Among the many albums from tons of great bands is Riot City‘s album “Electric Elite” which is the much anticipated followup to “Burn The Night” that they released in 2019. Cale Savy – one of the founding members of Riot City – and I …
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Hey everyone. Thanks for stopping in to give a listen and a read to this week’s post. I was in a group recently that was looking to work towards playing gigs with more popular type of music and we were using Nickelback as a band to emulate. Why Nickelback? Well, whether you like them or …
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Hey everyone. I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend and are primed for another productive week of music and anything else you’re working on. This week is an odd one where I’m releasing a song I wrote a while back for an ongoing project I’ve been working on. What inspired the release for this week …
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Greetings and salutations, everyone. One of my childhood/lifelong friends and I were talking last week and he was mentioning how the “Dad Metal” song I wrote reminded him of some Goth Metal he listens to; specifically the song “Let You Down” by Theater of Tragedy. This sparked the idea for this week’s post about writing …
Hello again. The past week had a lot of funny conversations about “dad metal” and the various descriptors of it. One prime way to find “Dad Metal” is to turn on a radio station and just listen to the bands on there. It’s just hard rock/diet metal like Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed, among …
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