![]() You don’t want to copy it because they have already done it, but you can learn from it. I think it’s important to see what your contemporaries are doing, you can learn a great deal and it can have a very positive effect on your writing. Sometimes I would listen closely to great songs and records and try to analyze what made them exceptional. I would sit at the piano and play, and wait for inspiration to come, sometimes it came and sometimes it didn’t, but I would never force it. If I couldn’t get away, I would set aside a portion of the day or night where I would remove myself from any distractions. I used to go away to a place I had in the mountains for an entire week with no distractions. It’s easy to be distracted by any number of things. IDK: How do you stay focused on creating and perfecting a song?ĭeVorzon: The greatest enemy of creativity is distraction. Barry DeVorzon with Bo Derek and Rob Thomas. Leon Russell, Steve Kipner, Lamont Dozier, Paul Anka, Jeff Barry, Paul Williams, LeAnn Rimes, Amy Grant, Ashford & Simpson, Randy Bachman, Steve Vai, Jamie Foxx and Andrae Crouch. Impressively, many top songwriters and artists use MasterWriter, to mention a few, Gwen Stefani, David Foster, Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds, Trent Reznor, Jeffrey Steele, Rob Thomas, Jimmy Webb, Linda Perry, Clint Black, Carole Bayer Sager, Kenny Loggins, Graham Nash, Nikki Sixx, Harvey Mason Jr. Pop Culture has been upgraded to link to information on any entry selected. Other new features include a complete searchable Bible Old and New testaments, plus Updates and improvements to all existing features including a greatly expanded and enhanced Sound-a-likes (close rhymes) and a completely redesigned interface which is resizable with enhanced functionality and a faster load time. In addition, MasterWriter includes many other tools, such as Songuard (an online date-of-creation song registration service), a stereo hard-disk recorder for recording melodic ideas, and over 250 tempo adjustible MIDI drum loops.Įarlier this year, DeVorzon introduced the newest version: MasterWriter 2.0, which includes Word Families and Parts Of Speech, two new reference dictionaries that open up a new world of possibilities for descriptive words and ideas. MasterWriter is particularly useful for lyricists, because it provides a massive dictionary of Rhymes, Close rhymes, Phrases, Alliterations, Pop Culture, and a Dictionary and Thesaurus. MasterWriter (which was first released in 2003) is a comprehensive program, that provides a broad array of tools to help songwriters be the best that they can be. For television, he has composed the scores for S.W.A.T., Simon And Simon, Renegades, Private Benjamin, V, The New Twilight Zone, Intimate Strangers and The Belarus File.įor the past eight years, DeVorzon has devoted his time and energy to create MasterWriter, a software program for songwriters. Early in his career, he formed the group Barry & The Tamerlanes and wrote their hit, ‘I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight.’ In addition, DeVorzon wrote the hits ‘Bless The Beasts And The Children’ for the Carpenters, and ‘In The City’ for the Eagles.Īs a composer, DeVorzon wrote the scores for such notable films as The Warriors, Hard Times, Dillinger, Xanadu, Bless The Beasts And The Children, Tattoo, Ninth Configuration, Looker and Exorcist III. DeVorzon also created a highly successful record label,Valiant and publishing company, Tamerlane, both of which he ultimately sold to Warner Music.Īs a songwriter DeVorzon is best known for writing the classic, instrumental hits ‘Nadia’s Theme’ (from The Young And The Restless TV series) and ‘Theme From S.W.A.T’ (which was a #1 pop hit). With a career spanning 50 years in the music industry, he has written many hit songs, won Grammy and Emmy Awards, and composed music scores for many top movies and TV shows. When it comes to songwriting, there are very few people with the knowledge and experience of veteran songwriter/composer Barry DeVorzon.
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