A lot of the aspiring songwriters that I teach think that their biggest barrier to writing music is their lack of music theory -- but after working with them I realize that their true barrier is worrying about what other people might think of what they create.

A lot of the aspiring songwriters I teach tell me they feel a barrier to their creativity, but don't know where it comes from. This is something I have also felt, and I'm happy to share how I finally made sense of it!

Here's a replay of my recent live stream where I talk about the process and strategies I use to write music from the heart.

Over my last two years of creating social media content on learning piano, I've learned a lot about the process and benefits of creativity.

Believe it or not, these lessons are also applicable to people who are interested in being creative at their pianos!

I'm ready to start planning my next online workshop and I'd like the topic to be songwriting! If this sounds interesting to you, you could really help me out by providing me some feedback.

When students ask me about learning to write music, I tend to start with the same advice, so I thought I'd collect that advice into a short video in case it helps you along your songwriting journey!

If you’ve been playing piano for a while and would like to branch out into writing music, here are a few tips I've learned over the years to help you enjoy the process and bring your best ideas forward.

After seeing how popular my post on choosing chord progressions that reflect your emotions was, I wanted to offer another way of approaching heartfelt songwriting — that is, starting with a melody first and choosing your chord progressions afterwards. In this video, I demonstrate my process for infusing my emotions into a melody and then choosing a chord progression that feels right for it.

Recently we’ve been talking about the chords within any major key signature and how you can use them to create chord progressions that express different feelings. Today I’d like to expand on this to talk about some of the variations to the standard chords that musicians often use to express even more emotions in their music.