{"id":10408,"date":"2020-10-30T00:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/on-songwriting-ep-1-reading-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:26:30","slug":"on-songwriting-ep-1-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/on-songwriting-ep-1-reading-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Songwriting Ep. 1:  &#8220;Reading&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4KDlCLYaNuQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Hit songwriter Christopher Ward (Alannah Myles, Diana Ross, Hilary Duff, Backstreet Boys) talks about how songwriters can use reading as a source of inspiration and how author Raymond Chandler inspired him while writing the Top 10 Canadian hit &#8220;Beautiful Goodbye&#8221; for Amanda Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Christopher: http:\/\/www.christopherward.ca<br \/>\nSubscribe to &#8220;On Songwriting&#8221;: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/cwardonsongwriting<br \/>\n&#8220;LIKE&#8221; Christopher: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Christopher-Ward\/207574322589760<\/p>\n<p>Songs referenced in this video:<br \/>\nAmanda Marshall &#8211; &#8220;Beautiful Goodbye&#8221;<br \/>\nMumford and Sons &#8211; &#8220;Dust Bowl Dance&#8221;<br \/>\nBruce Springsteen &#8211; &#8220;Ghost of Tom Joad&#8221;<br \/>\nKate Bush &#8211; &#8220;Wuthering Heights&#8221;<br \/>\nElton John &#8211; &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4KDlCLYaNuQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit songwriter Christopher Ward (Alannah Myles, Diana Ross, Hilary Duff, Backstreet Boys) talks about how songwriters can use reading as a source of inspiration and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,50,51,42,34,33,36],"tags":[1329,1331,1337,1336,1326,1333,1332,369,1330,1335,1328,103,113,111,104,112,117,1334,1327,114,116,115],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creating-a-hit-song","category-how-to-write-soul-music","category-how-to-write-soul-music-songs","category-most-popular-soul-songwriters","category-motown-songwriters","category-r-and-b-songwriters","category-self-publish-songwriter","tag-amanda","tag-beautiful","tag-book","tag-chandler","tag-christopher","tag-david","tag-goodbye","tag-lyrics","tag-marshall","tag-raymond","tag-reading","tag-songwriter","tag-songwriters-festival","tag-songwriting","tag-songwriting-contest","tag-songwriting-tips","tag-successful-songwriters","tag-tyson","tag-ward","tag-writing-lyrics","tag-writing-lyrics-to-a-song","tag-writing-lyrics-to-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}