New Song: Baby Girl I wrote this song a few weeks ago for my youngest – my daughter. Now, fully a young woman, the song is a reflection on some ideas as a father. I have a demo lyric video […]
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Tour Planning Google Sheet for songwriters and bands
A couple days ago, I released my Tour Planner (let’s call it version 1.0). It’s a Google Sheet that I’ve built over time. I made a bunch of updates to it recently because I’m planning a tour just after the […]
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YouTube Upgraded My Channel to an Official Artists Channel
YouTube Upgraded My Channel to an Official Artists Channel This has been sort of a big week for me. Or start of the year, to be more precise. As I was preparing to release my third song, Call On It […]
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New Song: Call On It Now
Yesterday I released, Call On It Now. It’s a song I wrote at the end of last year. You can find it on all the streaming services. I also have a YouTube lyric video. You can find that via this link or […]
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My Musical Goals for 2021
I’ve been writing my 2021 goals. I have a document I add to over the year and modify as I go. It identifies key areas I want to work on and both big and small objectives. These can be in […]
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New Song – Christmas Heart
Edit: 12/24/2020 Here’s a free download of Christmas Heart We’d still love it if you viewed and shared the YouTube video. Thanks. No pressure… BUT DO IT NOW!! Last year, two days before Christmas (12/23/2019) I wrote a Christmas song. […]
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Song Lyrics: Promised Land
Posted on Facebook 8.9.2020 PROMISED LAND © 2008 Matthew Moran The story behind the song A few weeks after my divorce in 2008, I was driving back to California to visit some friends and family after playing music in Colorado […]
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New Music: Ordinary Man with lyrics
About Ordinary Man Written in response to my disenfranchisement with myths I was taught as a child – about the country, about our history, and systems that seem intractable. Further inspired by the current climate in the country. The lyrics […]
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Travis Picking Lesson including downloadable pattern graphics
Travis Picking… finally First: The video and downloadable PDF and graphics can be found below. I am going to to provide some context for why I created this tutorial. I avoided learning Travis for MANY years. I have plenty of […]
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