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20 WAYS TO START A SONG
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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…
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge DAY
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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…
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge DAY
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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…
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5 Best Songwriting Exercises
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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…
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14-Day Songwriting Challenge DAY
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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up with Great Song Lyric Ideas—#2: Metaphor Collisions

8 December 2022
This exercise is one of my all-time favorites. It is the fastest way to show yourself that you…
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5 Best Songwriting Exercises
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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Lyric Ideas—#1: Sense Writing.

7 December 2022
In this series, I’ll go through my all-time Top 5 Exercises for generating lyric ideas, whether I’ve got…
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Why the title of your song is so important
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Why the title of your song is so important

15 November 2022
When we are talking about ‘ideas’ in songs, it’s helpful to draw this distinction: There is the ‘big…
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How to Write Songs Like Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and John Mayer
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Writing better lyrics with metaphor magic

12 August 2022
In this video, I show you how to write songs—and specifically lyrics—like Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and John…
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Pat Pattison Interview
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Mastering the Elements of Lyric Writing

3 August 2022
Studying and understanding the tools that go into making a song can help anyone learn how to write…
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