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🚨 FYI 🚨 the 5090 ("50 songs in 90 days") website is live & open for bidness: fawm.org
It's FAWM's longer (but more low-key) summer songwriting challenge. Join writing 50 new songs between Jul 4 & Oct 1...
#fiftyninety #fawm #songwriting
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Songwriting is hard. What are your strategies for switching things up in a new musical section?
#fawm #fiftyninety #songwriting #chords #guitar #fingers #takeittothebridge
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"FUC" isn't rude, it's the "FAWM ukulele club!"
The uke is a cheap and simple instrument. But it invites you to just... well... "fuc around" and find out what songs you have in you! That can be eally ruseful.
Are in the club? maybe in spirit?
#fawm #fiftyninety #fuc #ukulele
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Have you ever written a song about being lost? Literally or metaphorically? Give it a try. 🧭
Ex: “Lost Highway” (Hank Williams), “Can’t Find My Way Home” (Blind Faith), “Lost in the Supermarket” (The Clash).
#fiftyninety #fawm #songwriting #challenge #prompt #lost #getlost
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What's your FAWM comment style alignment? 💬
The summer "50 songs in 90 days" challenge is underway! 🤩 fawm.org
(Credit to "stephenwordsmith" for coming up with the original version of this chart)
#fawm #fiftyninety #songwriting #comments #alignment
ALT D&D alignment chart meme
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What's your favorite example of switching between two musical styles in the same song?
This week, try writing one of your own!
Examples: “Chop Suey” (System of a Down), “Band on the Run” (Wings), “Proud Mary” (Ike & Tina Turner).
#fawm #fiftyninety #songwriting #prompt
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I know, it's soooooo cliché. 🙄
This week, try writing a song around an idiom, phrase, saying, adage, or cliché you often hear.
Ex: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” (Barrett and Strong), “Poker Face” (Lady Gaga), “Goody Two Shoes” (Adam Ant).
#fiftyninety #fawm #songwriting
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💥 Happy 5090! 🤘
It's that time of year again, songwriting friends. Join Sloan (sloth) and Helga (duck) for a summer of new music making: 50 songs in 90 days, July 4 to Oct 1...
➡️FAWM.ORG⬅️
#fiftyninety #fawm #songwriter #challenge #collaboration #summervibes
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Happy leap FAWM! 🎉
Here are 6 lessons from Prince’s amazing and productive career that I jotted down from somewhere (forgot the source). I feel like FAWM is when I get closest to embracing the flow of these lessons…
Happy songwriting everyone, see you in March (tomorrow)!
ALT screenshot of a notepad reading: - work fast - become a finisher - abandon perfection - make art every day - sleep - vault mentality
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Your fourth and final lycial challenge for FAWM 2024 is: ANAPHORA (or REPETITION)
Repeat a word or phrase at the start of successive lines (or song parts) for emphasis. Ex: "Ima Be" (Black Eyed Peas), "Suddenly I See" (KT Tunstall), "Add It Up" (Violent Femmes)
Happy fawming!
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👋 Hey there! Maybe stop doom-scrolling and go write a song instead?!
If you need a starting point, try ripping off this super-famous 8-note sequence from 300 years ago:
D A B F# G D G A
Happy fawming!
#fawm #fawm2024 #songwritingprocess #pachelbel #pachelbelcanon
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No matter your feelings about Valentine's Day, know that FAWM loves you. ❤️
Can't wait to hear your next song!
#fawm #fawm2024 #lovesongs #songwriting #music #valentine
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This week's #FAWM lyrical challenge is an EDUCATIONAL SONG! 🎓
Just because a song helps you learn something doesn’t mean it can’t be fun! Ex: “The Elements” (Tom Lehrer), “James K. Polk” (They Might Be Giants), “NaCL” (Anna & Kate McGarrigle), anything from Schoolhouse Rock!
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Week2 #FAWM musical challenge: GET MODAL!
Most songs are in a Major/Minor key — AKA “Ionian/Aeolian” modes. Try something new by writing in one of the other modes! Ex: “Army of Me” (Björk; C Locrian), “Gin and Juice” (Snoop Dogg; F Phrygian), “Man on the Moon” (R.E.M., C Lydian)
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FAWM spirit animals Helga the duck and Sloan the sloth had a productive weekend collaborating on new FAWM demos and visiting the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame!
Have you ever made trips for in-person collabs during FAWM?
#fawm #songwriting #music #duck #sloth #rocknrollhalloffame
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