Welcome to episode 13 of Write Me A Song: A Songwriting Podcast with Edward Randell and Olivia Rafferty!

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🎵 Episode 13: Write Me An Oak Tree

this week we’ve got a special guest: British-Australian songwriter Jamie Doe, also known as The Magic Lantern. Together we dove deep into the ways that songwriting is a meaning-making tool. Process, tools, inspiration: it’s all in this episode.

Jamie asks Olivia to take an ‘acorn’ of an existing idea and grow it into a full song.

Listen to the episode to see how she gets on!

🎹 Songwriting Homework #13

This week, we want you to turn an acorn into an oak tree.

Here’s your homework:

Go through your voice memos or scraps of lyrics to find a small idea that abandoned or forgot about. Maybe it’s a verse, a chorus or a chord progression and a line of melody.

Listen and ask yourself the following questions:

What do you already have?

What do you need more of?

What could this song be about?

Use the answers to guide the rest of the songwriting process.

Record it and share it with us!

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💻 Jamie’s website

🎧 Jamie’s album, To Everything A Season

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