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Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics
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coursera
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15 hours (approximately) 
english
Online - Self Paced
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Berklee
About Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics
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What You Will Learn?
- Define and identify the point of view, form, and the "who, what, where, when, and how" in a song.
- Identify whether a lyric is stable or unstable through the use of line lengths, number of lines, stressed and unstressed syllables, and melody.
- Utilize the various rhyming techniques to evoke specific emotions in a song and define the difference between Assonance and Consonance rhyme.
- Use phrasing to clarify your ideas.