Level up your songwriting with five radically practical exercises used by professional songwriters around the world
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Concise, digestible, and radically practical!
Like you, we love learning new things and acquiring new skills to get us closer to our vision for our music — but we don’t love long-winded courses, padded out with information that we will probably never need or use. Those courses can be overwhelming, and end up half-finished, and make us feel worse than when we started.
This course is a powerful distillation of our collective 40 years of songwriting and teaching experience at some of the best colleges and universities in the world – the 5 most powerful and practical exercises to help you transform your songwriting—immediately.
These 5 exercises will give you the tools, techniques, and processes that will help you turn your ideas into powerful musical storytelling – songs that move people to tears, laughter, and love.
Learning these exercises changed our lives – and has led to fulfilling (and rewarding!) careers as songwriters.
We’re thrilled to share with you the 5 most powerful songwriting exercise to transform your songwriting. They changed our lives—we’re sure they’ll change yours too.
In this course, we show you:
- Exercises for generating ideas—and “endless idea generation tool”
- A writing exercise to draw on to take an idea and develop a full lyric out of it
- How to write a bangin’ chorus (using a secret, but super simple, chord technique!)
- How to write lyrics like a pro, by avoiding rhyme cliches – we show you 3 different rhyme schemes that will make your lyrics stand out from the crowd
- An exercise for using great songs as a blueprint for your own songwriting – giving your song structure, and making sure you can finish your song every time
- A melody exercise that places your most important ideas in neon lights – experimenting with melodic placement so that your melodies and lyrics are in perfect sync with each other
- Tips on how pro songwriters think about melodic phrasing to create dramatic contrast, sonic spotlighting, and an emotional journey.
Each exercise is radically practical, and immediately actionable.
At each step, we:
- Guide you through step by step
- Give you real-life examples of the exercise in action
- Show you how a song idea is transformed by applying these techniques
- Give you well-known song examples to show how this exercise is evident in gold-star songwriting.
- Songwriters of any level looking for new exercises, techniques, and processes to inspire their songwriting.
- People looking for concise, digestible, and immediately practical tips.
- People who want to learn from professional songwriters who are also experienced teachers.
- Songwriters who love learning and acquiring new skills.
- People who have never written a song and want to know how to start.
- No experience needed, just a keen desire to write songs and an open mind to try new things.
Your Instructors
HOW TO WRITE SONGS
We are Keppie Coutts and Ben Romalis, two professional songwriters, performing artists and teachers with over 40 years of collective experience in the music industry.
We have studied and taught at some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world including Berklee College of Music, Sydney Conservatorium, the Australian College of the Arts, the Australian Institute of Music, the LA School of Songwriting and JMC Academy.
Our goal is to help people write better songs! Our belief, having worked with thousands of songwriters (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful and deliberate practice. Our intention is to share the skills, knowledge and ideas that we’ve had the privilege of gathering with others who embrace the art and craft of songwriting.
Testimonials
“I have been writing songs since I was a kid and I’ve done bits and pieces of learning about the process. But this course was exactly what I needed. Some of the best money I’ve ever spent. You made me think of aspects of songwriting that had just never occurred to me! I haven’t even finished the course yet and I’m already writing better songs.
You two have great chemistry on the screen too which helps and you clearly know what you’re talking about!
I can’t thank you enough for sharing so many songwriting secrets and I highly recommend this course to anyone who is serious about improving their craft.”
Sue C.
“THIS IS A REAL MIND-EXPLOSION.
Incredible useful information for me as a songwriter :D”
Bjarne B.
“I like that we are asked to participate. So far it’s offering me so many ways of looking at song writing, Sense Writing gave me a diffenet way to try and write a song with heart and the Landing Chord Section gave me an idea as to how to make a song have a different feel. I am really enjoying the course.”
Ray C.
“This is a fabulous course! I learned a ton. Would definitely recommend this to other songwriters. Thank you!”
Candice M.
Self-Paced Online Course
USD$89.00