Tony Conniff Songwriting Workshops

10/10/2025

'John Lennon: Underrated Melodist'
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I write this on what would have been John Lennon's 85th birthday - October 9. At his best Lennon was up there with anyone at writing melodies that...

08/15/2025

'Billy Joel: The Master of Melody'
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08/01/2025

08/01/2025

'The Master of Melody'
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Billy Joel’s been around for a long time, and I’ve had mixed feelings about his music for a lot of that time. His musical eclecticism, the feeling that he was in one song doing his version of the Beatles, in another song, The Rolling Stones, or Tony Bennett, or whoever, made it hard for me […]

06/13/2025

'The Early Genius of Brian Wilson'
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Focusing on Brian's earliest songs, I was struck by his individuality, his harmonic and melodic daring, even before he’d found his fully unique songwriting voice...

05/18/2025

TONIGHT!

05/09/2025

'Songwriting Is Hard… Except When It’s Not'
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The good news is if I put in work on the tougher ones (most of them) the likelihood of an easier one falling into my lap increases. They’re like bonuses.

05/07/2025

'A Good Melody Tells A Story – Without Words'
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In a song melody is usually the element that conveys the greatest amount of emotion. The words go to the head, the melody goes to the heart, the rhythm goes to the body...