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Neel, Garrett, and Phil in a Zoom call

Garrett Lajoie: Writing with FAWM for ten years

Hamilton-based singer-songwriter Garrett Lajoie talked about taking on February Album Writing Month for the last ten years and how that experience has shaped his approach to songwriting. Download the lyrics to Window Shopping to follow along.

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Neel, Mark, and Phil in a Zoom call

Writing an album in a month with Mark Ippolito and FAWM

Singer-songwriter Mark Ippolito talked about his experience with February Album Writing Month (FAWM), challenging himself to write a full album of songs in 28 days. Check out his album on Bandcamp.

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Neel and Phil in a Zoom call

Year End 2025

For our final episode of 2025, we reminisced over the past year, and talked about Neel’s ongoing exploration of his songwriting challenge song. We talked about:

Some of our favourite episode from 2025

Neel’s further exploration of his songwriting challenge song

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Neel and Phil on a Zoom call

Neel’s answer to the Song Studio challenge

For this special episode, Neel shared his answer to the songwriting challenge from Song Studio to write a song based on the word “shadow.”

Download the lyrics and chords to Silence, absence, stillness to follow along.

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Neel and Phil on a Zoom call

Spotify, Rush, and our upcoming songwriting challenge

For this special in-the-family episode, we talked about recent changes to artists terms at Spotify, the breaking news about Canadian rock band Rush, and how we’re progressing on our songwriting challenge answers.

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