Happy New Year! I hope 2017 brings you everything you want. So, what do you want? My new-year’s goal is to place more music in film and television programs. To do that, I want to write better songs, write more of them, and write them faster. Maybe take a stab at writing music cues. Here are a few tricks I’m going to apply. Tip #1 – Whittle to Focus: Do you know the heart of your song? Sometimes after a verse or two, songs start to ramble. So test yourself. Write four lines to