Ep. 8 – JEREMY BATTEN, MICHAEL STEWART, BILL BARNES: Composition and Method
03/31/12 • 128 min
The Songwriting Podcast is a monthly music podcast where three hosts revel in the technical and creative aspects of the craft of songwriting, with the help of guest songwriters or some other music industry professionals.
Episode 8 features three songwriters: Jeremy Batten, Michael Stewart, and Bill Barnes.
(Jeremy and Michael also play for the band The Ultimatums. You can also find Michael Stewart on Facebook.)
Our topical themes are Composition — with some music theory discussion included — and Writing Concise Lyrics and overall Writing Method, among other things. We take an in-depth look at Jeremy’s song, “Questions” — and we also listen to Michael’s song, “Nothing.”
And of course, this episode also features specialty segments, such as Send Your Song (where we have two very interesting submissions to review: “Lost and Found” by Vincent Tomasso and “In the Sky” by Fizzy Mits); Don’t Do the Dumb Things That Jason Did (led by Jason’s long-time songwriter best friend, Bill Barnes); and Moving to Nashville, which features “Nashville” Steve Rempis. We also introduce Jason’s new songwriting student, Mesake Finau, who brings us “Mesake’s Tunes,” a segment that will supplement Craig Can Write. Grant Adams was unable to join us again this month, so his Grant’s Rants ... and Raves! segment is still missing.
Moving to Nashville: This month Nashville Steve Rempis teaches us about copyrighting. Thanks, Steve!
Send Your Song: The hosts of The Songwriting Podcast invite budding — as well as seasoned songwriters — to send their songs to us, and we will critique them on the show, giving constructive feedback, which consists of positive and negative points, and is merely based on our opinions. Feel free to contact us about sending your song at [email protected].
Your hosts of The Songwriting Podcast are Craig Tovey, Grant Adams and Jason Pyles. The Songwriting Podcast posts new episodes on the first day of every month. To contact us or to send your feedback, you can leave a voice mail at (801) 382-8789, or as noted above, you can e-mail us at [email protected]. And you can also find us on Facebook.
We’d like to thank the Dave Eaton Element for the use of its tunes for our theme music, and we’d also like to thank Kara Brewer for her graphic design work.
Episode 8 of The Songwriting Podcast was recorded on March 21, 2012.
The Songwriting Podcast is a monthly music podcast where three hosts revel in the technical and creative aspects of the craft of songwriting, with the help of guest songwriters or some other music industry professionals.
Episode 8 features three songwriters: Jeremy Batten, Michael Stewart, and Bill Barnes.
(Jeremy and Michael also play for the band The Ultimatums. You can also find Michael Stewart on Facebook.)
Our topical themes are Composition — with some music theory discussion included — and Writing Concise Lyrics and overall Writing Method, among other things. We take an in-depth look at Jeremy’s song, “Questions” — and we also listen to Michael’s song, “Nothing.”
And of course, this episode also features specialty segments, such as Send Your Song (where we have two very interesting submissions to review: “Lost and Found” by Vincent Tomasso and “In the Sky” by Fizzy Mits); Don’t Do the Dumb Things That Jason Did (led by Jason’s long-time songwriter best friend, Bill Barnes); and Moving to Nashville, which features “Nashville” Steve Rempis. We also introduce Jason’s new songwriting student, Mesake Finau, who brings us “Mesake’s Tunes,” a segment that will supplement Craig Can Write. Grant Adams was unable to join us again this month, so his Grant’s Rants ... and Raves! segment is still missing.
Moving to Nashville: This month Nashville Steve Rempis teaches us about copyrighting. Thanks, Steve!
Send Your Song: The hosts of The Songwriting Podcast invite budding — as well as seasoned songwriters — to send their songs to us, and we will critique them on the show, giving constructive feedback, which consists of positive and negative points, and is merely based on our opinions. Feel free to contact us about sending your song at [email protected].
Your hosts of The Songwriting Podcast are Craig Tovey, Grant Adams and Jason Pyles. The Songwriting Podcast posts new episodes on the first day of every month. To contact us or to send your feedback, you can leave a voice mail at (801) 382-8789, or as noted above, you can e-mail us at [email protected]. And you can also find us on Facebook.
We’d like to thank the Dave Eaton Element for the use of its tunes for our theme music, and we’d also like to thank Kara Brewer for her graphic design work.
Episode 8 of The Songwriting Podcast was recorded on March 21, 2012.
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Bonus – DIRECTOR JEFF FEUERZEIG: Motivation – Creating Art for Art’s Sake
The Songwriting Podcast is a monthly music podcast where three hosts revel in the technical and creative aspects of the craft of songwriting, with the help of a guest songwriter or some other music industry professional.
But this show is a BONUS episode featuring an interview with filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig, the director who made the must-see music documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” (2005).
Jeff Feuerzeig is an award-winning director, non-fiction filmmaker and screenwriter. Jeff won the top documentary directing honors at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival for his film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston.” This film also won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.
Our theme for this episode is Motivation: Creating Art for Art’s Sake, and we discuss Jeff’s documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” and its titular subject, songwriter Daniel Johnston, to illustrate our conversation.
Your hosts are Craig Tovey, Grant Adams (though he’s absent during this episode) and Jason Pyles. The Songwriting Podcast posts new episodes on the first day of every month — and we’ll be posting Episode 8 here on April 1.
For more information on Jeff Feuerzeig and his films, including “The Real Rocky,” “The Dude,” “The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” “Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King” and other upcoming films, visit his site at www.JeffFeuerzeig.com.
You can hear another great podcast interview with Jeff Feuerzeig regarding his film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” on The Documentary Blog Podcast, Episode 1. This interview covers more of the filmmaking background and more interesting information about Daniel Johnston. Highly recommended!
Here are some other links to check out relating to Daniel Johnston:
The album that Jeff Feuerzeig highly recommended: “It’s Spooky”
A Few Daniel Johnston YouTube Videos:
— Story of an Artist
— Some Things Last a Long Time
— True Love Will Find You in the End
— I Live My Broken Dreams
Daniel Johnston Web Store: HiHowAreYou.com
A decent Daniel Johnston discography (with individual song listings)
We’d like to thank the Dave Eaton Element for the use of its tunes for our theme music, and we’d also like to thank Kara Brewer for her graphic design work.
This bonus episode of The Songwriting Podcast was recorded on March 14, 2012, and it’s dedicated to manager Jeff Tartakov.
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Bonus – LIFE IS HARD: Internet Marketing and Recording on a Budget
The Songwriting Podcast is a monthly music podcast where three hosts revel in the technical and creative aspects of the craft of songwriting, with the help of guest songwriters or some other music industry professional.
But this show is a BONUS episode featuring a lecture-style interview with a songwriter duo called Life Is Hard, consisting of Robert Iutzwig and Tim Marshall.
Life Is Hard has one of the best examples of a professional online presence that we’ve seen from indie musicians who aren’t funded by the marketing muscle of a major label. So, The Songwriting Podcast asked these experts to teach us all about Internet Marketing and Recording on a Budget.
In fact, Life Is Hard was kind enough to prepare a very valuable, 16-page PDF document from their lecture notes, which also include various links. Click here to download Life Is Hard’s Indie Artist Guide to Music Marketing.
And as always, we took some time to play a song by Rob and Tim called “Red Rocks.” They explain their songwriting process for that tune afterward.
LIFE IS HARD Links (See what we mean?) :
last.fm (indie radio)
Radio Indy (indie radio)
IM Radio (indie radio)
... And we think they have even more, but you get the point. Life Is Hard is working hard and doing their Internet marketing right.
Your hosts are Craig Tovey, Grant Adams (though he’s absent during this episode) and Jason Pyles. The Songwriting Podcast posts new episodes on the first day of every month — and we’ll be posting Episode 9 here on May 1.
And here is a list of some other links referenced during this episode:
The Dave Eaton Element’s Bandcamp Page
Pomplamoose’s YouTube Music Video for “Bust Your Knee Caps”
A MUST-READ Article on Pomplamoose by the Houston Press
Kawika Heftel at Heftel Studios
Book recommendation:
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