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On Songwriting 11 The basic tools

J.P. Kallio / August 12, 2015

I was asked for some advice on songwriting for beginners. So I thought I’d write down few things here to […]

J.P. Kallio / February 18, 2015

In the wise words of Tom Waits “For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by

I love writing. I love writing songs and I love writing blog posts. But the one time I always hit

Once again I got some music recommended to me through Twitter, keep ’em coming 😉 I was completely new to

Ted Talk’s have been around a long time now and some of the greatest innovators of every field have given

I sneaked out a version of this weeks song the day I wrote it, but here is the album version.

J.P. Kallio / February 27, 2014

While writing the music for my latest album, Northern Boy, I noticed that most of the songs I was coming