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🌶 Songwriting Course! "The Songwriting Process Start to Finish" - 3 hours of perfectly sequenced learning, with demonstrations, examples, and 18 downloadable resources -howtowritesongs.org/the-songwriting-process-start-to-finish
In this video, I address a really common issue for lots of musically-oriented songwriters: feeling like all the lyrics you write a boring, or cliche. I go through 5 different exercises that you can do to both get over the feeling that your lyrics are bad, but that can very quickly get you writing GREAT lyrics.
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00:00 Introduction
00:22 Tuning into the 'helpful' critic
03:33 Getting better at anything
03:55 70/20/10
04:58 Exercise 1
06:56 Exercise 2
08:09 Exercise 3
13:01 Exercise 4
15:04 Exercise 5
🌶 Songwriting Course! "The Songwriting Process Start to Finish" - 3 hours of perfectly sequenced learning, with demonstrations, examples, and 18 downloadable resources -howtowritesongs.org/the-songwriting-process-start-to-finish
In this video, I address a really common issue for lots of musically-oriented songwriters: feeling like all the lyrics you write a boring, or cliche. I go through 5 different exercises that you can do to both get over the feeling that your lyrics are bad, but that can very quickly get you writing GREAT lyrics.
👪 Join a Songwriting Group: howtowritesongs.org/songwriting-group-info-and-registration
🔶 Join our international Songwriters Community - get access to free workshops, live feedback sessions with Keppie and Benny, and more: howtowritesongs.org/community
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Tuning into the 'helpful' critic
03:33 Getting better at anything
03:55 70/20/10
04:58 Exercise 1
06:56 Exercise 2
08:09 Exercise 3
13:01 Exercise 4
15:04 Exercise 5
