by Corey Stewart | Jan 18, 2017 | Aural Portfolio |
This song was inspired by one of the most significant events in my musical career which happened while I was living in Sydney between 1994 and 1999. The event was a five day songwriting seminar that I spontaneously went to called Creative Options which was run by...
by Corey Stewart | Jan 10, 2017 | Aural Portfolio |
Seeing Stars is a song that started off in two ways. First, was the line “my head is spinning and I am seeing stars” followed by the beginnings of the verse chord progression being a Dmajor7 to a Bminor. It wasn’t until I accidentally played an...
by Corey Stewart | Nov 30, 2016 | Aural Portfolio |
Just One Kiss was written as a songwriting exercise inspired by my wife. I was having a conversation about something musical when all of a sudden she leant over and gave me a kiss. She then said to me “see if you can write a song about that.” I did and the...
by Corey Stewart | Nov 6, 2016 | Aural Portfolio |
This was a song that almost wrote itself due to the set of circumstance I had found myself in at the time of writing it. I was living in a share housing situation that was really having a negative effect on my mental wellbeing. It was an awful experience which I...
by Corey Stewart | Oct 17, 2016 | Aural Portfolio, Old Song New Ears |
While going through my archives recently I noticed that I have a lot of songs written in the very early days of my musical journey that would never see the light of day. However, I still remember how these songs go in my head as if I’d written them yesterday. I...
by Corey Stewart | Oct 8, 2016 | Aural Portfolio |
Many of my songs have been written as the result of me going off on a tangent while learning another song. Jigsaw is one such example. I stumbled across the chord pattern for the verse while I was trying to learn “One Step Ahead” by New Zealand group Split...
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