This week Logan Brown welcomes on a very special guest, a fantastic singer/songwriter, she once saved his life using the milk of a goat, the love of his life; Savannah Shea.
Savannah breaks down four of her songs as she gears up to re-release her entire catalogue. Spread out over three albums totalling 40 songs releasing this year. By breaking down some of her tracks, her and Logan demystify the songwriting process and hopefully teach you a thing or two.
4 Jun 2024
EP 2 | Songwriting with Taylor Abrahamse
Logan sits down with singer/songwriter and former child actor Taylor Abrahamse. Taylor is a renowned finger style guitar player with a unique voice to compliment his playing abilities.
Today we dive into a couple of Taylor's original songs where we demystify the process behind Taylors songwriting. Including 'Ain’t No Cure For Love' and 'If I Was a Woman'.
Throughout the course of this episode Logan and Taylor offer up some songwriting tips to help artists at all levels.
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0:00 - New intro music
1:20 - Meet Taylor Abrahamse
4:10 - Performing without a band
5:50 - Finger style guitar playing
8:57 - Most artists are impersonators
13:04 - Acoustic guitar vs Electric guitar
16:04 - Ain’t No Cure For Love
22:36 - Improv songwriting
25:02 - ADHD moment, back to Ain’t No Cure For Love
32:45 - Capitalism affecting music
39:08 - If I Was a Woman
47:24 - Writing songs for yourself
55:41 - Autistic thoughts
57:16 - Making a pop song
01:01:15 - What even is folk music?
01:02:51 - Breaking the rules in music
01:03:27 - Songwriting tips
01:12:55 - Resetting your dopamine
01:15:56 - Outro
21 May 2024
EP1 | Songwriting with Brock Tinsley (Double Experience)
Our very first guest on Down to the Beat is one half of the Canadian rock group Double Experience, Brock Tinsley. Brock gives us a glimpse into the workings behind a few songs he and fellow nerd rocker Ian Nichols have created.
The songs we're focusing on today are So Fine, Bill Murray, and AI Freaks Me Out. We break down these tunes and not only give you all a glimpse of the songwriting process, but how these tools can help or influence your songwriting skills.
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0:00 - Intro
4:27 - Double Experience
15:49 - So Fine
31:31 - Bill Murray
49:13 - Trying Out Country / Opening for Blackberry Smoke
59:22 - AI Freaks Me Out
01:13:13 - Outro
7 May 2024
Meet Logan Brown
Welcome to the first episode of the Down to the Beat podcast.
Over the coming weeks, months, years, decades and even centuries; Logan Brown will welcome on various musicians to interview and jam out with while he picks apart their songwriting from various records.
In hopes that you (the listener) can learn a thing or two if you're just starting out as an artist or even if your a professional musician who has hit a lull.
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