Category: Lyric Writing
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Let It Go – A Lesson in Songwriting
5 September 2023
The song “Let It Go” from the Disney musical Frozen is a song that solves an age-old problem…
Creative Practice
Lyric Writing
Music
Study Your Heroes
4 August 2023
The importance of studying your heroes is often overlooked by most when learning the art of songwriting. Through…
Creative Practice
Lyric Writing
Music
Balancing Truth and Fact
28 July 2023
A common struggle among beginner songwriters is the notion that they can only write about experiences that have…
Lyric Writing
Music
Flip Method #1 – Replacing
27 July 2023
Clichés are convenient ways to express ourselves but because they’re so well known, they can make our writing…
Lyric Writing
Music
Write Small Moments, Not Big Themes
21 July 2023
A common pitfall of many songwriters is to try and tackle grand themes from the start. In this…
Lyric Writing
Music
How to Write Your Best Lyrics: The Flip Method
21 July 2023
Tired of your lyrics? Can’t seem to create anything that sounds interesting or original? Well you’re in luck…
Analyzing Songs
Creative Practice
Lyric Writing
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Essential Songwriting Tips for Beginners
14 July 2023
Amidst all the doubts and fears, it can be difficult to know where to begin when songwriting. All…
Lyric Writing
Music
A Songwriter’s Enemy – Mistaking Universal Ideas for Generic
5 July 2023
There’s a surprising enemy that lurks in the good intentions of songwriters chasing the ‘universal’ song lyric. In…
Lyric Writing
Music
How to Write a Song – Creating Lyrics
3 July 2023
Crafting compelling song lyrics is an art that can make the difference between your song being memorable and…
Chorus Writing
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Lyric Writing
Song Starters
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Top 5 Songwriting Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Ideas: #5—Chorus Writing Prompts
6 March 2023
What a Chorus is not I have some important news about a Chorus—news that took me way too…
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Lyric Writing
Metaphor
Song Starters
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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Lyric Ideas: #4—Metaphor Sense Writing
17 February 2023
Metaphor Sense Writing is a combination of Exercise #1 (Sense Writing) and #2 (Metaphor Collisions). It’s a way…
Chorus Writing
Creative Practice
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Lyric Writing
Melody Writing
Metaphor
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20 Songwriting Prompts
8 February 2023
Wanna know how to write a song? Start with one of these 20 songwriting prompts that will kickstart…
Creative Practice
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Lyric Writing
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge: DAY 3
15 January 2023
#3. A list. This poem is unbelievable. Listen to it, the whole way through (listen to the recording…
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Lyric Writing
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge: DAY 1
14 January 2023
#1. Getting past the rust. Write literally the most cliched lyric you can think of. Really squeeze that…
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
Lyric Writing
Song Starters
Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up with Great Song Lyric Ideas—#3: Twisting Cliches
13 December 2022
Clichés are everywhere. They are encoded into the way we think and express ourselves in such a pervasive…