Does vocabulary matter as a lyricist?
The Short Answer: Yes.
If we simply think of what vocabulary really is at its heart, it’s simply having access to more words to use.
It allows us...
What Is And Is Not In Frame
A painter will show exactly what is needed and beneficial, no more and no less.
If it doesn’t have a purpose being in the frame, it shouldn’t be...
Eloquently Deliver Your Song’s Main Theme or Idea
There’s no doubt that the chorus is the most important part of a song.
Usually the verses and bridge cover the story.
The verses...
Read Your Lyrics Out Loud
Poetry readings are an important element of poetry. Reading out loud is often the single best way to ensure that the poem flows.
Often poets like to have other...
Deliver Imagery To Contextualize the Rest of the song
Every piece of information informs and contextualizes everything after it.
If you front-load your song with imagery, it will carry...
Maybe you barely play an instrument. You might have picked up the guitar or piano just a few weeks ago. Can you start songwriting?
The short answer: yes.
The longer and more nuanced...
Do you think that knowing how to read and write sheet music is what music theory is? Because that's at all what music theory is!
If you thought that music theory wasn't useful for...
What questions should we be asking ourselves as we are songwriting? Let's talk about some good questions to ask ourselves to make sure our songs and lyrics are on the right track!
Suspended chords can be a powerful addition to your songwriting chord toolbox. Not only can they be used as a fantastic transitional chord, but they can be some of the most adaptable and...
A simple, yet effective way to make your song much more harmonically interesting is simply adding more types of chords to your toolbox.
In this video, we're going to talk about what added tone...
An important part of the creation process is to know when to stop editing and workshopping what you've done and call your song done.
Otherwise we can tinker on our songs...
We often will rightly spend a ton of time making sure our choruses are absolutely killer.
What we can forget when we're doing this is that our verses are more than capable of ruining our song-...
