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3.3 Can Songwriting be Practiced?
[haiku url="http://lyricworkroom.com/aotd/aotd3-3.mp3"] Back when I first started doing the research for this course, one of my main motivations was to explore some ways to apply deliberate practice …
3 More Ways to Write Lines That Really Roll Off the Tongue
So far in the Songwriter's Guide to Rhyme and Other Echoes, we've talked mostly about forms of rhyme that we might use at the ends of lyric lines. That brings us to the "Other Echoes" part of the …
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6 Ways to Maintain a Steady Stream of New Song Ideas
A few days after deciding that I'd write 14 songs in February, I started noticing song premises every day. I hadn't consciously changed my routine. I hadn't even begun to put in significant time at …
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How Contrast Makes Any Song More Compelling
In the Song Structures 101 series, I’ve explained the basic song sections (verse, chorus, etc.) and a few different ways that these sections can be linked together to create a song. Whichever form …
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Surprise and Delight in Songwriting
Ever been excited for somebody to arrive at your home? A relative, a close friend, a dinner date, a spouse returning from a business trip? Dinner’s on the stove, music’s on the stereo; everything’s …
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