Author: Arran Dove

The Strange Way to Get Your Creativity Back If you want to improve your creativity or, productivity when it comes to writing music, you might just be moving in the wrong direction. Let me explain. We all want to be creative 100% of the time, but sometimes our brain just doesn’t comply. If you’re anything…

How to make demo tracks (the right way) Every good song starts with a bunch of great demos.  But how do you go about creating one? And why should you even bother? I’m going to answer both of these questions today and hopefully it’ll help you out with your next song. The 3 Types of…

Struggling for inspiration? We all do from time to time, but what if I told you there was a way you could improve both the quality and the speed of your ideas – starting today? You’ve probably heard me talk about references when it comes to production and mixing, but I want to show you why referencing can be…

Brute Force Metal Songwriting Let me tell you something that happened last week which completely changed the way I look at writing. I was just messing about on a keyboard and I happened to come up with a really cool melody on a synth. My dad heard the melody I came up with and told…

9 Ways to Speed Up Your Metal Songwriting If you’re like most of us, you have tons of unfinished riffs, half-written songs, and folders full of unused ideas. Finishing a song can feel like a huge task – but it doesn’t have to be. Today I’ll give you 9 techniques that I personally use to…