Category: Lyric Writing
-
Lyric Exercise #3 – Use Specific Imagery
Lyric Exercise #3 – Use Specific Imagery People listen to songs so that they can be transported to a different place. To that aim, it’s important for our lyrics to […]
-
Lyric Exercise #2 – Upgrading Verbs
Lyric Exercise #2 – Upgrading Verbs While every aspect of lyric writing is essential, the choice of verbs can make or break a song’s impact. In this blog post, we’ll […]
-
Write a Song Within an Hour
Write a Song Within an Hour A lot of songwriters often talk about how they can’t finish songs. You hear it all the time – tales of abandoned notebooks, lone […]
-
Part 3 of The Songwriting Formula – The Song Map
Part 3 of The Songwriting Formula – The Song Map It’s easy to think that once you have a concept and a title, that you’ll be able to plan out […]
-
Lyric Exercise #1 – Extending Metaphors
Lyric Exercise #1 – Extending Metaphors A large part of songwriting is creating imagery for our listeners. By painting a vivid enough picture through our lyrics, we can draw our […]
-
Part 2 of The Songwriting Formula – The Title
Part 2 of The Songwriting Formula – The Title Songwriters regularly underestimate the power of a song title. Many think that a title is just a way of identifying a […]
-
5 Easy Songwriting Exercises to Improve Your Lyrics
5 Easy Songwriting Exercises to Improve Your Lyrics Are you tired of writing lyrics you don’t love? Maybe you constantly listen to your favourite songs, wondering how they wrote such […]
-
Part 1 of The Songwriting Formula – The Concept
Part 1 of The Songwriting Formula – The Concept A common complaint that many songwriters have is that they’re unable to finish their songs. You can easily avoid this by […]
-
An Easy 3-Part Songwriting Formula
An Easy 3-Part Songwriting Formula Do you have folders full of half-finished songs? This is a common problem and you’re definitely not alone. In this article, we’ll go through a […]
-
Let It Go – A Lesson in Songwriting
Let It Go – A Lesson in Songwriting The song “Let It Go” from the Disney musical Frozen is a song that solves an age-old problem that songwriters face: how […]
-
Study Your Heroes
Study Your Heroes The importance of studying your heroes is often overlooked by most when learning the art of songwriting. Through this blog post, you will learn why studying your […]
-
Balancing Truth and Fact
Balancing Truth and Fact A common struggle among beginner songwriters is the notion that they can only write about experiences that have personally happened to them. Here, we discuss how […]
-
Flip Method #1 – Replacing
Flip Method #1 – Replacing Clichés are convenient ways to express ourselves but because they’re so well known, they can make our writing sound mundane and unoriginal. That’s why in […]
-
Write Small Moments, Not Big Themes
Write Small Moments, Not Big Themes A common pitfall of many songwriters is to try and tackle grand themes from the start. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what that […]
-
How to Write Your Best Lyrics: The Flip Method
Explaining the Flip Method Tired of your lyrics? Can’t seem to create anything that sounds interesting or original? Well you’re in luck because this blog post is all about helping […]
-
Essential Songwriting Tips for Beginners
Essential Songwriting Tips for Beginners Amidst all the doubts and fears, it can be difficult to know where to begin when songwriting. All too many times, songwriters get stuck staring […]
-
A Songwriter’s Enemy – Mistaking Universal Ideas for Generic
A Songwriter’s Enemy – Mistaking Universal Ideas for Generic There’s a surprising enemy that lurks in the good intentions of songwriters chasing the ‘universal’ song lyric. In this blog post, […]
-
How to Write a Song – Creating Lyrics
How to Write a Song – Creating Lyrics Crafting compelling song lyrics is an art that can make the difference between your song being memorable and relatable, or not. In […]
-
Top 5 Songwriting Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Ideas: #5—Chorus Writing Prompts
What a Chorus is not I have some important news about a Chorus—news that took me way too long to properly understand: If I had realized this a little sooner […]