Robert Curtis
Songwriter
in Residence
and Your Personal Site Guide
Robert has an enthusiasm
for songwriting and songwriters and loves investigating and applying the various
software programs and other innovations that add to the craft and creative enjoyment
of songwriting. He's
also interested in approaches to advancing songwriting careers.
He started Songwriting Software
Plus to share his enthusiasm with other songwriters looking for ways to help
their own songwriting efforts and enjoyment.
Plus, by operating this
site he can talk on and on about songwriting without having to bring his non-songwriting
friends to tears about it.
Robert's own songwriting
journey was re-ignited in his mid twenties when he woke up to his forgotten
childhood dream of becoming a songwriter. It took a few days on a quiet, secluded
beach on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to clear his head enough to let his
dream resurface.
He notes "I was so focussed on getting through college and on to 'making a living'
that I lost touch with that dream until that soothing sun and tropical breeze
cleared my mind". The two Margaritas probably didn't hurt either, or was it
four ;-)
With the dream in hand but the skills of the craft unknown to him he dove into
the study of songwriting headfirst and has been enjoying and developing his
craft since the 1990s.
His writing spans a zone from adult pop to contemporary pop. He credits numerous
books, songshops and live song presentations, not to mention numerous rejections
and volumes of constructive criticism, for bringing his writing to where it
is today, still growing.
He particularly credits hit songwriters Pat
and Pete Luboff and their book, 88
Songwriter Wrongs and How To Right Them, as being crucial keys in his early
writing efforts.
Robert has finished songwriting
compositional study in harmony, groove and melody under private instruction
with Jai Josefs, author
of songwriting's definitive musical text Writing
Music for Hit Songs. Also Robert
was honored to become part of the Jai Josefs' songwriters group in Los Angeles,
California in 2006.
Additionally Robert is involved
with further contemporary pop piano study with Mark
Harrison, author of The
Pop Piano Book (Hal Leonard publisher), in Los Angeles.
Career wise Robert has logged
a publishing contract with Atlanta Music Group (BMI) including a song co-penned
with Doug Sparks and Andrew Gold, a love song entitled "No Other Word",
and also signed another co-write, "Who Needs Love", for the independent
film The Wednesday Night Save The World Society. And this past Mother's Day
a song Robert helped to co-write - Happy Mother's Day, I Love You - was played
on the Willie Nelson owned and executive produced XM radio station 811.
Robert continues to write
and continues to enjoy having songs demoed by major up and coming artists in
Los Angeles like Jennifer
Nash and Kat Parsons.
Also along with Doug Sparks he's enjoyed composing "Without My Heart"
in conjunction with three-time Grammy nominated songwriter Lois Blaisch (Tiffany's
"Could've Been") and artist and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire
Robert
Martin (Bette Midler, Michael McDonald, Stevie Nicks, more).
Robert was born and raised
in the U.S.A. in beautiful upstate New York and now resides in the exciting
melting pot of the world Los Angeles, California.
Hi, Robert
Curtis here :-) I extend you a warm welcome and please feel free to let me know
if there is anything I can help you with or if you have any suggestions to improve
this site. I look forward to growing this site with your input. Thank you. Simply
drop me a note at Robert@songwriting-software.com.
If
you're interested in hearing some of my writing you can check out some recent
co-writes in streaming audio by clicking here.
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