{"id":32,"date":"2009-05-01T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-05-06T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:05:13","slug":"tom-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/2009\/05\/tom-petty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Petty comments on how he prefers to write music and lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Do you work on songs with your guitar, and work on music and words at the same time?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I try to, yeah. I work mostly with the guitar or piano. I&#8217;ve found, especially with this last album, that I really prefer getting the melody and music at the same time as hopefully a chunk of the words. I think this is better&#8211;mo&#8217; better&#8211;for me than trying to marry the two together at different times. I think I was always happiest with the stuff that I wrote that came alive all in one try. But, you know, honestly, you do anything you can to make it work.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Songwriters-Songwriting-Expanded-Paul-Zollo\/dp\/0306812657\/\">Songwriters on Songwriting<\/a><\/em>, Paul Zollo<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Petty comments on how he prefers to write music and lyrics: Do you work on songs with your guitar, and work on music and words at the same time? I try to, yeah. I work mostly with the guitar or piano. I&#8217;ve found, especially with this last album, that I really prefer getting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}