So it’s a big resource, I think, for songwriters.ĭo you think it ever might hamper your creativity? Now, we might have come to that as a conclusion anyway, but maybe not. The speed of it, in helping speed along our process is nice. Roger: I think probably when we are in the midst of working on a song and are struggling, and are looking for a particular “right” phrase or a “right” way to say something, MasterWriter can very quickly get in front of us, 20, 30 different ways that we might want to put together a particular structure. With all of these features, what do you like best about it? So each one of the songs on my song list, I’ve got whether they are complete, whether they’ve been recorded yet, who were the coauthors on them – if there were coauthors, all kinds of information, about copyright year and all of that. It also keeps all of your song info, remember I said that it is also used as a library.
That particular feature of MasterWriter Dan and I aren’t using just because we have another method we use for actually recording. One of the other pieces it has going for it is it also allows you to record audio. Roger: Yes, though it’s definitely intended for that. So this is something any author could use, not just songwriters. And then a really nice dictionary, a really nice thesaurus. There’s sections on phrases, there’s sections on alliterations, there’s sections on pop culture, the world or geography, different places or famous names, famous products or food and drink or travel. Then it has a section on rhyme phrases, so, cliches or typical sayings that would end in the rhyme sound. And close rhymes, not quite there, but close enough. You could also find that on the internet, but the nice thing about the rhyming dictionary is that it gives you rhymes, for perfect rhymes of the word that you’re looking for a rhyme for, but it also does sound alikes, which you don’t typically find in a rhyming dictionary and which are very useful. In addition, across the menu at the top, you can go to a rhymes area, that is like a rhyming dictionary. The appeal of it is that it’s as easy to use as Microsoft Word, in terms of just writing, putting all of your ideas down and being able to edit them. And I showed Tom some things he hadn’t gotten into yet. I’ve done songwriting sessions with Tom Kimmel in which he used MasterWriter, and I saw it in action there and learned some tips about how we could use it better. Roger: Since then, several of my heroes like Tom Kimmel, who is one of my favorite songwriters, is also a user of MasterWriter.
MasterWriter has been very useful to take those ideas out of the sketchbook and start putting them together into song form. That’s always with me regardless of what other technology I might use. Anytime I see anything of interest, something that catches me, a turn of phrase or something like that, ideas come to me, it gets jotted down in that sketchbook. My previous method is (and I still use this method quite a bit, because I’m a songwriter but also an artist, so I always have with me a small sketchbook).
#Masterwriter software software#
Had you thought about using software like this before Paul suggested it? So we have used it on, oh gosh, the last 30 or so songs that Dan and I have collaborated on.
#Masterwriter software upgrade#
Now I have just gotten the upgrade to MasterWriter 2. When I got back home I downloaded it to my laptop and have been using it ever since. So I didn’t use it at Song Camp, just saw a demo of it. It was Paul who suggested and actually had a great discount price that particular year for MasterWriter. 2 years ago Dan and I were at Blue Ridge Song Camp which was being led by Paul Riesler. That started about 2 years ago, and you’ve said you like the method of it but you also like the library. You’ve told me before that you use MasterWriter in your songwriting process.
They have graciously agreed to talk with us about their writing process from conception to performance and offer us some tips and techniques to make writing easier. Together they have penned such amazing work as Fill a Cup and Hold on to Love. Roger Tomhave of New Day and Dan Johnson from Soulpajamas are co-writers and friends that make up a pretty amazing duo.
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