🔷 FREE eBOOK: https://how-to-write-songs.ck.page/cc729c98cd Tired of your lyrics? Can't seem to create anything that sounds interesting or original? Well you're in luck because this video is all about helping you break free of cliched lyrics so you can start writing better songs! 🌶 Hot New Course! "The 5 MOST POWERFUL SONGWRITING EXERCISES... REVEALED" - 3 hours of perfectly sequenced learning, with demonstrations, examples, and 18 downloadable resources - https://howtowritesongs.org/the-5-most-powerful-songwriting-exercises-revealed/ 🔶 Join our international Songwriters Community - get access to free workshops, live feedback sessions with Keppie and Benny, and more: https://howtowritesongs.org/community/ ABOUT KEPPIE Hi I'm Keppie! I'm a professional songwriter, and songwriting teacher. I've been teaching song and lyric writing for over 10 years now for some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world— Berklee Online, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Open Academy, as well as for the Australian College of the Arts. At other times, I've taught for the Australian Institute of Music, as well as the LA School of Songwriting. My goal is to help people write better songs! My experience in the classroom, with thousands of students at this point (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful, deliberate practice. My intention is to share the skills, knowledge, information, and ideas that I've gathered with anyone who wants to improve their songwriting. Keppie's music is here: https://www.keppiecouttsmusic.com/music ABOUT BENNY Hi I'm Benny. My passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. I am a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia's best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas. I am also the Founder and Head Producer of SILAMOR STUDIOS, a boutique studio specialising in Composition for Film, TV and Interactive Media. I write extensively across various instrumental and lyric-based genres and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible. I currently release original songs under the name SILAMOR. I am also passionate about education and have taught song and lyric writing as well as film composition for JMC Academy, Collarts and the Australian Institute of Music. I design and regularly facilitate workshops on creative process and innovation. Links to Bennny's music are here: The Green Mohair Suits https://open.spotify.com/artist/7M3Zf0UKjXdQO2mXvxDPX4?si=Y24zyBFjSlqSLteteq8RhA SILAMOR https://open.spotify.com/artist/5HOpae5ijIPDXJTtAnkLBN?si=qEX2btO0QM6PbqLIx7TQZw http://www.silamor.com/music Work Flow Audio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGWDe9zfvue5uYw1m8r-UlA #howtowriteasong #howtowritesongs #songwriting #songwritingforbeginners #writesongs #johnlegend #taylorswift #writeasong #howtowritelyrics #lyricstips

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This video features content from our Hot New Course 🌶 - "THE 5 MOST POWERFUL SONGWRITING EXERCISES... REVEALED! - https://howtowritesongs.org/the-5-most-powerful-songwriting-exercises-revealed/ If you want to write INSPIRING LYRICS and become a BETTER SONGWRITER, this exercise is guaranteed to help. 🔶 Join our international Songwriters Community - get access to free workshops, live feedback sessions with Keppie and Benny, and more: https://howtowritesongs.org/community/ Songwriting is like anything else, you can get better at it - with deliberate practice and daily processes. In our collective 40 years experience as professional songwriters we've never found a more transformative exercise... trust us, this will change the way you write songs. Word generator: https://perchance.org/useful-generators ///GET YOUR FREE eBOOK: https://tinyurl.com/yc2kz2f3 ///FREE MUSIC AND SONGWRITING DOWNLOADABLE PDFs\\\ https://app.gumroad.com/howtowritesongs ///NEWSLETTER - You can receive once-a-month tips, tools and tidbits on songwriting from us by subscribing to our newsletter here: https://howtowritesongs.org/ ABOUT KEPPIE Hi I'm Keppie. I'm a professional songwriter, and songwriting teacher. I've been teaching song and lyric writing for over 10 years now for some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world— Berklee Online, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Open Academy, as well as for the Australian College of the Arts. At other times, I've taught for the Australian Institute of Music, as well as the LA School of Songwriting. My goal is to help people write better songs! My experience in the classroom, with thousands of students at this point (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful, deliberate practice. My intention is to share the skills, knowledge, information, and ideas that I've gathered with anyone who wants to improve their songwriting. Keppie's music is here: https://www.keppiecouttsmusic.com/music ABOUT BENNY Hi I'm Benny. My passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. I am a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia's best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas. I am also the Founder and Head Producer of SILAMOR STUDIOS, a boutique studio specialising in Composition for Film, TV and Interactive Media. I write extensively across various instrumental and lyric-based genres and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible. I currently release original songs under the name SILAMOR. I am also passionate about education and have taught song and lyric writing as well as film composition for JMC Academy, Collarts and the Australian Institute of Music. I design and regularly facilitate workshops on creative process and innovation. Links to Bennny's music are here: The Green Mohair Suits https://open.spotify.com/artist/7M3Zf0UKjXdQO2mXvxDPX4?si=Y24zyBFjSlqSLteteq8RhA SILAMOR https://open.spotify.com/artist/5HOpae5ijIPDXJTtAnkLBN?si=qEX2btO0QM6PbqLIx7TQZw http://www.silamor.com/music Work Flow Audio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGWDe9zfvue5uYw1m8r-UlA #howtowriteasong #howtowritesongs #songwriting #lyrics #lyricwriting #writingsongs #writinglyrics #musictheory #songwritingexercises #protips #musictips #writingsongs

🌶 Songwriting Course! "The Songwriting Process Start to Finish" - 3 hours of perfectly sequenced learning, with demonstrations, examples, and 18 downloadable resources -https://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: https://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: https://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

The rhythm of song lyrics is an often overlooked aspect of lyric writing. But rhythm patterns in song lyrics can reflect the emotion of the lyrics. It is also a crucial aspect when it comes to how to fit lyrics to music and How to give rhythm to lyrics. In this video, we look at examples of rhythm in song lyrics and 5 lyrical rhythms you need to know. How I can help you ... 🔥A Simple System To Write Great Lyrics Without Wasting Hours https://tony-s-site-76d9.thinkific.com/courses/crafting-ideas-into-finished-lyrics Subscribe to Songwriters Chop Shop for songwriting tips, tools, and techniques https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL0u8Trt64SXDTnULmqwAXw?sub_confirmation=1 Songwriting Tips from Famous Songwriters Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11PPg8gkaE&list=PLFTcgOLQMgpLimCjOox952fwbLcdFZPSe Best Songwriting Tools Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt29SGUvzjE&list=PLFTcgOLQMgpKxzAtP9Slso4Om1RievKaC These videos are meant to break down the songwriting process into easy to use tips, techniques, and tools that spark creativity and help you apply them like the pros. I do my best to make videos that share the 'secrets' of writing great songs without holding anything back. My main focus with this channel is to pass on the tools of the trade that I have learned and found to make a big difference to my creative flow and songwriting. There is an old saying that goes "everybody has one great song in them", I hope to show you that once you know what makes a song great, you can apply it to all the songs you write. Start from the heart, follow your gut, and revise with your mind. #songwriting #songwritingtips #lyricalrhythm This video is about lyrical rhythm https://youtu.be/rubo4XDbJ5c https://youtu.be/rubo4XDbJ5c

Lyrics are one of the most important aspects of songwriting: They're the first thing most people listen to, and they convey your song's story more clearly than anything else. But they're really hard, right? Language is so complicated and weird that many of the structural approaches we theorists like to take for chords and stuff just don't work. Well, fortunately for us, we're not the only ones asking these sorts of questions, and the answers are out there. We just have to look a little further afield. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/12tonevideos/ Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Last: https://youtu.be/t2uNFpCRG9I Rhyming video: https://youtu.be/ToOqsk8m220 One Week: https://youtu.be/fC_q9KPczAg Cardboard Castles: https://youtu.be/FN1OR1aa2cM Accents video: https://youtu.be/JMxzLOSlhbs Sonnets video: https://youtu.be/-qoT5oReP0k Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ARBcjTR_0EkZt3Nb3ATtobroLCnyhPbiwNVmKtN2gQU/edit?usp=sharing Huge thanks to our Elephant of the Month Club members: Susan Jones Jill Jones Ron Jones Howard Levine Gabi Ghita Kaylor Hodges Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Brian Etheredge Josh King Gene Lushtak Tom William (Bill) Boston Khristofor Saraga Nicolas Mendoza Anton Smyk Wolf Bennett RAD Donato Mitchell Fund Dale Monks Duck Chris Prentice Jack Carlson Len Lanphar Paul Ward Benjamin DeLillo Budjarn Lambeth Branden Randall Dov Zazkis Jesse Russo James Treacy Bagshaw Christopher Lucas Hendrik Payer Thomas Morley Abhijit Patel Andrew Beals And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, Oliver, Jc Bq, Dialup Salesman, Adam Neely, nico, Justin Donnell, Michael Fieseler, Rick Lees, Ben LaRose, rhandhom1, Harold Gonzales, Marc Himmelberger, Chris Borland, StarsServant, jason black,Nick Olman, Dutreuilh Olivier, Davis Sprague, Justin Bronstein, Justin Aungst, David Roulston, Dave Mayer, Thomás, billy roberts, Elliot Burke, Alex Atanasyan, Joey Strandquist, Daniel Gilchrist, Amlor, Greg Borenstein, Tim S., Elias Simon, Paul Quine, Anamol Pundle, David Tocknell, Jerry D. Brown, blalo'u, Christopher Wright, Lauren Steely, Fabian, Nikolay Semyonov, Ohad Lutzky, Jon White, Eivind Vatshaug, Josiah R. Hazel, Kurtis Commanda, Bate Goiko, James A. Thornton, Jacob Friend, Benjamin Cooper, Kevin, Joe Galetti, Arnas, CodenaCrow, Sarah Spath, Skylar J Eckdahl, Kristian Bredenbeck, John Bejarano, Gerhard Blab, drunkwookiee64, Brian Dinger, SD, Revolution Harmony, Aa Markus, Paul Apicella, Pawel Sit, David Barker, Adam Wurstmann, Dave Wray, Shadow Kat, Adam Kent, Michael Alan Dorman, Caroline Simpson, Lee Rennie, Richard T. Anderson, Thomas Schryver, Angela Flierman, Matthis Knopf, Kelsey Freese, Peter Wells, Zion Suppasan, Dan Lizotte, Seth Keller, Mark Feaver, Tyler Lukasiewicz, Kevin Johnson, Brian McCue, Kevin Hellon, Stephan Broek, Richard Walker, Wú QióngYuǎn, Nathan Petchell, Blake Boyd, alex, Calvin Blitman, Magnus Guldbrandsen, Ross Relic, Stefan Strohmaier, Lilith Dawn, David Baker, Jonathan Beck, Dmitry Jemerov, Jason Foster, Ian Seymour, Brett Haines, christian madsen, Luke Rihn, Rob Holton, Devon Wilhelmy, Ben Horwood, Jaroslav fedorčák, Allen Edwards, Brandon Lanning, Ryan Nicholls, ml cohen, Brandon Hamele, Darzzr, Rodrigo Roman, Francois LaPlante, Matthew Fox, Paper Coelacanth, Britt Ratliff, Patrick James Morley, Koen Hoogendoorn, Tae Wook Kim, Eddie O'Rourke, Ryan, Timothy Field, Jon Bauman, Drew Mazurek, Jacob Luedecke, Vincent Sanders, Victor L., Tommaso Ghidetti, JJ Deman, Volker Wegert, Linus Abrahamson, Matthew Kallend, Patrick Callier, JH, Joshua Gleitze, Ben Zotto, Jan Macek, Trevor, Michael McCormick, Charles Gaskell, Sylvain Chevalier, Yuriy Honcharuk, Roger Grosse, David Hardin, Jeremy Zolner, Leon Saleh, Valentin Lupachev, Paul Koester, and Danny! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold and Jade Tan-Holmes for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!

#stressedsyllables #writingrhyme #identifystressedsyllables #poeticmeter #writingforchildren In this video I share my top 5 tips for how to identify stressed syllables in English words. Identifying stressed syllables is an essential skill for writers who want to write in rhyme and meter, rhyming picture books, or rhyming poetry for children. Learn more about the Lyrical Language Lab online course: https://www.reneelatulippe.com/writing-courses/ ABOUT PEEK & CRITIQUE PEEK & CRITIQUE -- for writers of rhyming picture books, prose picture books, and children's poetry -- is a series that explores concepts taught in The Lyrical Language Lab online course, such as poetic meter, rhyme, sound devices, word choice, lyrical language, imagery, and scansion. I read and critique YOUR submitted writing samples of rhyming picture books, prose picture books, and children's poetry, explaining concepts along the way. This is a FREE service for kidlit writers! You do not need to have taken my Lyrical Language Lab course to participate. This service is open to ALL children's writers! Want to submit a writing sample for Peek & Critique? Go here: https://www.reneelatulippe.com/peek-critique/

Writing lyrics can be a challenge and there are a lot of Lyric writing techniques out there. There are so many things to think about when it comes to creating lyrics – melody, rhythm, structure, and finding the right words that fit together perfectly. It’s hard and a lot of songwriters find themselves struggling to write lyrics. But with a little bit of practice, you can Make song lyrics that are both memorable and meaningful. How do you write a memorable song? in this video, we look at 'the chunk method' that John Mayer uses. How I can help you ... 🔥A Simple System To Write Great Lyrics Without Wasting Hours https://tony-s-site-76d9.thinkific.com/courses/crafting-ideas-into-finished-lyrics 💥Lyric Writing Templates - Streamline your Songwriting Process. https://songwritertony.gumroad.com/l/rbemv Free Stuff: 👉Lyric idea Generator - Rever run out of Lyric ideas again. https://songwriterschopshop.com/song-idea-generator/ Recommended Resources: 🎼Hook Pad - Music Creation Made Easy. https://hooktheory.com/affiliate/199.html 🔥Full Songwriting Course - Everything you’ll ever need to learn about songwriting! https://spectreacademy.net/courses/complete-guide-to-songwriting/?sld=tonyswcs