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A Guide To Hit Song Forms – Tips, Techniques and Tools for Writing Hit Songs

April 9, 2007 By Graham English

Another bonus you get when you buy Samurai Songwriting is A Guide To Hit Song Forms. Inside this valuable songwriting guide, you'll learn... How to begin writing songs with superior structure and the techniques you need to master the craft of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: contrast, hit songs, Samurai Songwriting, song structure, Songwriting, songwriting tips, verse, verse types

The Perfect Song Title – 5 Things To Remember

November 26, 2006 By Graham English

Place Your Song Title At Key Points In The Chorus Your song title is more likely to be remembered if it is placed in the first or last line of the chorus. Place Emphasis On Your Song Title In The Chorus Support your song title by giving it a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: chorus, contrast, harmony, lyric writing, lyrics, melody, rhyme, rhythm, song titles, Songwriting, songwriting techniques, songwriting tips, spotlights, writing lyrics

How To Master Musical Textures

August 10, 2006 By Graham English

How To Master Musical Textures

If you need more compositional choices or your music needs more depth, you might want to play with the textural qualities of music. This won't be difficult because I've prepared a textural dictionary for you. Polyphonic, while literally meaning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Arnold Schoenberg, bass, composing, composition, contrast, counterpoint, dictionary, harmony, Music Theory, musical textures, polyphonic, polyphony, reference, rhythm

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-09-06

August 9, 2006 By Graham English

Topics covered: Top 10 Lyric Writing Insights, line length, contrasting ideas, melody, metaphor, prosody, rhyme schemes, rhythm, song forms, spotlights... Download: Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-09-06 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: contrast, contrasting ideas, development, hit songwriting tips, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, line length, lyric writing, lyrics, melody, metaphor, perspective, podcasts, point of view, prosody, rhyme, rhyme schemes, rhythm, setting, song forms, Songwriting, songwriting tips, SongwritingHacks, spotlights, stress, verb tense

How To Find The Head-Turning Hook That Reels ‘Em In

February 26, 2006 By Graham English

Be the one song your fans listen to today that gets their adrenaline pumping. Before you commit to a single note of your next song, you want to do some serious sleuthing behind the scenes. I call it being a hook detective. What you're looking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: billboard charts, contrast, curiosity, details, hook placement, hooks, lyric ideas, melodic motion, note length, phrase length, song sections, songs, Songwriting

How Do You Develop New And Interesting Chord Changes?

February 8, 2006 By Graham English

Here's a handful of my top techniques that I use to develop new and interesting chord changes. 1. Stick with I-IV-V I know, it's not new, but I-IV-V doesn't have to be uninteresting. There's a reason why these chords are so fundamental to our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: blues, chord changes, chord progressions, classical music, contrast, mashups, melody, modal, modes, music software, rhythm, Songwriting, songwriting techniques, SongwritingHacks

Top 10 Lyric Writing Insights

February 6, 2006 By Graham English

*Before I continue, and I'll say this many times, I operate under the assumption that the opposite of everything I say is equally true. Including the opposite of what I just said. :) Here's my top 10 lyric writing insights: 1. The rhythm of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: consonance, contrast, contrasting ideas, details, development, don't tell, line length, lyric writing, lyrics, melody, metaphor, perspective, point of view, prosody, rhyme, rhyme schemes, rhythm, rules, setting, show, song forms, Songwriting, SongwritingHacks, spotlights, stress, verb tense, writing lyrics

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