Neel gets all nostalgic for his songwriting challenge answer

For our first host-answer episode for our Songwriting Challenge 2023, Neel shared the process behind his answer to the challenge to write a song in a mode. Our good friend Susan Cattaneo joined in – thanks Susan for your awesome insights!

Download the lyrics to follow along.

We talked about:

• SummerSongs songwriting retreat
• The Number of Songs in the World Doubled Yesterday (honest-broker.com)
• Do you know the mode you’re playing around in?
• How Neel almost made a major faux pas on his video playing around in Mixolydian
• Using ChatGTP to help with your lyric writing – check out Neel’s conversation with ChatGTP
• Neel found that Mixolydian is a bit “smoother” than Major
• Is it OK to put the em-PHAS-is on the wrong syl-LAB-le if it makes a great melodic hook?
• Developing images and connecting the parts of your song in your lyric