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".

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. And he says he's following on with their newly updated and expanded version 101 Songwriting Wrongs And How To Right Them.

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 in film work signed a 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 working demos from my coming album in streaming audio by clicking here.

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