About Me..

My name is Gary Ewer, and I am a full-time music instructor at Dalhousie University, where I teach ear training, music theory, choral techniques, and conduct the two university choral ensembles.

I use Twitter to send out songwriting and other music tips, as well as to keep people up to date with my music activities and observations. I’d love to have you follow me!

Thanks for visiting my blog site. If you want to know more about my thoughts on songwriting, visit my site, ”The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” I have several songwriting e-books available there that I think would help you. I also am the author of “Gary Ewer’s Easy Music Theory,” a CD-ROM-based course in music rudiments, and you can read more about that here.

10 Responses to “About Me..”

  1. Richard Lawrence Says:
    May 4, 2008 at 2:19 am

    Hello Gary -

    I wanted to subscribe to your Songwriting “Quick Tips” newsletter – on the main page of your website:

    http://www.secretsofsongwriting.com/index.html

    Unfortunaely, the fill-in box that opens up is too large for my 800×600 screen format, so the eMail address box is off the bottom of the screen, with no way to scroll down to it :-(

    Just thought you’d like to know …

    I hope you can correct it or possibly just enter my eMail addy directly into your contacter/mailer’s list.

    Thanks for your help and reply in advance,
    Richard Lawrence

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  2. c love Says:
    January 13, 2009 at 5:47 pm

    Hello,

    Maybe you can help us out. My husband wrote a song (in spanish) named “Levemente”. He sang it to a man that was starting a boy band and next thing you know, that boy band recorded the song as a demo. My husband was okay with it, since he was collaborating with music and lyrics. He beleived he too would be taken into success IF the boy band made it big. WELL they did make it! But the man that was managing the boy band, pretty much took all the credit for the work and booted everyone else off the managing team. The man and the boy band made it big, they signed with Sony Discos and EMI as their publisher. My husband said “the hell with it” and never fought for his rights. NOW, 4 years later, I was surfing through the us copyrights search files and entered the name of the song. TURNS OUT, the man (manager of boy band) did register the song under his own name as if he wrote it, but he did also put my husbands name. As if they wrote the lyrics and music together. The song is registered under my husbands name along with that other tag along, since 2005. Yet he has not received one penny of royalties. We just found out today! What should he do to claim those royalties?? think you have an answer for us… BTW, that boy band went on to sell over 100, 000 albums and “Levemente”Hope so, thanks!!

    C LoVe

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  3. garyewer Says:
    January 14, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    What is the name of the “boy band”?

    If someone claims authorship of a song they did not have a hand in writing, that is theft, and you should be contacting a copyright lawyer. Contesting authorship requires proof, so you will need to be prepared for that.

    If a published song is recorded, the author(s) are entitled to payment, called mechanical rights. Such rights are paid to the publishing company, and a share of those funds are distributed to the author(s). Not paying them is a legal issue, and again, a copyright lawyer would be able to help you.

    Good luck!

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  4. Tamara Says:
    March 1, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Hey there i’m a singer songwriter, with my debut E.P set for release this Summer.

    I’ve had producers send me beats via myspace, and have wrote to some of their efforts. Although nothing has been recorded as yet.

    I just wanted to know how I could obtain ALL mechanical rights to my music. And what the law is on how much a producer should receive for a track.

    I may not have explained this in the best light as this is all new to me. But as I am young and this is my first musical effort I really want to accomplish everything correctly with no legal woes or mishaps that may creep up in the future.

    Please reply to me via Email.
    Thanks a tonne!

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  5. Rob Says:
    April 25, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    Hi Gary. I’ve just launched http://www.songwritinghooks.com, a blog for interesting/fun conversations about the best songwriting techniques and devices.
    I’m currently looking for guest bloggers who’d like to talk about the hooks in their favourite songs. Would you possibly be interested? Info here: http://tr.im/uhook
    Cheers!
    Rob

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  6. Bill Bartmann Says:
    September 3, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    Cool site, love the info.

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  7. Pasquale Says:
    September 24, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    Hi, I’m a songwriter as well and I’d love to follow your blog updates. Do you know how to set this up?

    thanks

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  8. david Says:
    October 22, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Hey Gary we need you here:
    http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=99
    specially your way of analising songs.
    Thanks.

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  9. aestar101 Says:
    October 24, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Cool blog. It seem very insighful. My blog is about music too, but more the concept in general and the industry. I’ll add you to my Blogroll. :D

    Reply

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