“If you don’t have an idea and you don’t hear anything going over and over in your head, don’t sit down and try to write a song. Go mow the lawn”: Follow Neil Young’s lead to demolish those frustrating songwriting barriers

Neil Young.

You can be working on one of the most gloriously uplifting chord progressions ever written, have a melody that nobody listening could ever forget, or be mixing a track where every instrument sounds punchy and streaming-ready. But a song isn’t finished UNTIL it’s finished.

Songwriting is really the art of marrying all those disparate elements that constitute ‘an amazing song’ together, and - while the individual parts might shine in isolation, it’s how they work in unison that really matters.