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Songwriting: Write Pro Standard Lyrics
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About Songwriting: Write Pro Standard Lyrics
Lyrics intro
Wireframing: Avoid Rookie Mistakes and Create a Story Progression
Story Progression: Example Folsom Prison Blues
Story Progression: Example Chandelier
Lyrical Economy: Example Big Yellow Taxi
Lyrical Economy: Example Jolene
Show Don't Tell: Example She's Leaving Home
Show Don't Tell: Example Feel It Coming
Metaphor: Example Hotel California
Metaphor: Example Deep River
Intertextual Writing
The Right Language
Lyrical Hooks
Songforms and Lyric Writing
Over to You: Rewrite One of Your Lyrics
Two Lyrics on the Same Theme
Write Lyrics to This Tune
Declutter a Lyric
Using Google to Write Lyrics
Write a Pay Off Line
Bonus: How to Become a Pro Songwriter by People Who've Done It
Getting Feedback
What You Will Learn?
- As an A&R rep at a music licensing company, I listened to many songs every week. Of those that are nearly there but not quite, it's the lyrics that often pose a problem: lyrics without a story, or too much cliché or no consistent theme. It's a myth that pop lyrics are meaningless. Pro songwriters spend alot of time on lyrics..
- In those course you will learn how to craft lyrics like a professional songwriter and what errors to avoid. Specifically, we will look at .
- Wireframing: constructing a story progression to your lyrics.
- 'Show, Don't Tell': the use of imagery.
- Metaphor.
- Intertextual Writing: taking inspiration from other works of art without ripping them off.
- Using the right language for your song's audience.
- The course begins by looking at some very effective lyrics, then asks you to craft your own. There are video and text exercises to complete and you will have a chance to get my feedback on your lyrics or to post them for group feedback which may just help you find cowriters!.