SongwritingWith:Soldiers
A blog of stories from SongwritingWith:Soldiers, a nonprofit that pairs military service members and veterans with professional songwriters. Useful for readers curious about songwriting as a way to tell stories.
Stories showing songwriting used as a creative outlet by service members and veterans.
The keyboard
A keyboard waits by the wall. One key nobody uses opens a very small door behind it.
The microphone
The microphone waits by the stool. It has heard plenty of songs sung just for the fun of it.
The loose sheet of paper
A scrap of paper holds a half-written chorus. Its last line is only a hum, which is how the best ones start.
Major, the melody finder
Major plays the forgotten key and promises it always opens something. So far, it has never been wrong.