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How To Write And Analyze Lyrics Using TextMate

TextMate is my second favorite app right behind Logic Studio. I’ve written about my TextMate love affair a lot. In this tutorial, I wanted to share how I use TextMate to write and analyze lyrics, including tips for finding the perfect rhyme and spotlighting important ideas.

Samurai Songwriting Issue 1 Is Now Available

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Here’s what we cover in this issue:

The inner game of songwriting. [...]

The Perfect Song Title - 5 Things To Remember

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 rhythm, melody, and harmony that sounds natural and intuitive. [...]

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-09-06

Topics covered: Top 10 Lyric Writing Insights, line length, contrasting ideas, melody, metaphor, prosody, rhyme schemes, rhythm, song forms, spotlights…

Perfect Rhyme and Family Rhyme

Perfect Rhyme has three characteristics:

The rhyming syllables have the same vowel sounds
The consonant sounds after the vowel (if any) have the same sounds
The rhyming syllables begin differently

A good substitute for Perfect Rhyme is Family Rhyme:

The rhyming syllables have the same vowel sounds
The consonant sounds after the vowel are phonetically related
The rhyming syllables begin differently

In Family [...]

Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Give me 5 minutes and I’ll show you how to instantly find unique and interesting details to put into your lyrics.
The technique is called Object Writing and it’s so ridiculously easy that you’ll be pissed you didn’t know about it sooner. I learned it from Pat Pattison.
Here’s how it works:
First, gather your materials. You’ll need [...]

Top 10 Lyric Writing Insights

*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 your melody and the rhythm of your lyrics should match.
Rhythm has *strong and [...]

MasterWriter Review

Here is my review of MasterWriter, a collection of writing tools for songwriters.

First of all, I give MasterWriter two big thumbs up. It has been an invaluable songwriting tool for me since the day I bought just over a year ago.
MasterWriter is a powerful Windows and Mac compatible suite of songwriting tools. MasterWriter is an [...]