Bending the songwriting rules with Roger Beckett

Roger Beckett is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, community builder and artist manager from Pickering, Ontario.

He has written and had songs released in various genres, “Fade Away” (Country), “7 Billion” (Pop), with Canadian and US songwriters and artists. He has also performed at various venues in Toronto and at the Bluebird and Commodore in Nashville.

Roger is a past coordinator, for 11 years, of the Toronto Chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

He currently has a new project, “RoBeck” through which he has released four tracks including the latest one “51” which is topical and very relevant to the existential times we find ourselves in.

Roger shared his latest song 51. Download the lyrics to follow along.

We talked about:

• Roger’s (way) earlier appearance on the show
• Writing in different genres
• Jotting down phrases from daily life, along with notes to better remember the idea you had
• Defying conventions in songwriting, as long as they serve your song
• Writing songs based on Song Studio’s Song Calls challenges
• Writing lyrics that are universal AND specific