Hi Harriet,

This is really nice of you to share. It is very important to critique the song and not the writer.

The very first song critique I ever received was a live professional critique in front of about 30-50 people. I knew I needed work as a songwriter, but....the critiquer shuddered and said, "It's childish! Rain, rain, go away...." I even needed to leave the seminar for a while to go weep. I survived by writing a song, "Rain, rain, go away, I'd like to be a child today." I realize this professional did not know what he was doing. Critiquing is perhaps an artform of itself.

Sometimes the best critiques are questions: What did you mean with this line? Why didn't you... These get the writer to use their own mental power to improve/rewrite without overlaying one person's style or method on another person's creative work.

Vondelle

Vondelle Hebert

http://cdbaby.com/cd/vondelle