Using the track you created in the previous 30 minute songwriting session (or a karaoke track or beat), begin to put a lyric together. Make a rough recording of your rhythm and chords. Save your notes along with any melody or lyric phrases that come along with it. Make a few notes on what you have in mind for the track vibe. Is it bluesy or lullaby-like? Angry or blissful or sad? What’s the style: intimate Singer-songwriter or powerhouse Rock? Play softly or attack it with strength? Slow and loose or aggressive and tight? It’s up to you. ◆ Create a track to write to (30 min.)Ĭhoose a rhythm groove and play one of the chord progressions listed in the previous session or one of your own. You’ll find more lyric, melody, and chord Song Starters on this page. When you find a common, repetitive three- or four-chord progression like one of these, make a note of it so you can use it in a song of your own. Once a month, spend one of your 30-minute sessions looking at the chord progressions of hit songs that you like. Many hit songs use generic four-chord progressions that can’t be copyrighted, like these. ◆ Explore hit chord progressions (30 min.)Ĭhoose one of the grooves you found in the previous session and add a chord progression. If you get stuck on a melody, try any of the techniques described here. This is a great exercise for warming up before or during a melody writing session. Then develop it into a verse or chorus melody. Come back to it in another session and add chords. Keep playing with your melody line, changing note pitches, note rhythms, and phrase lengths. When you find something you like keep it and repeat it. If you have a long line, split it in half and repeat the first half.Sing it again but replace one note with silence.Sing a new line that might follow those two repeated lines. Then sing it again while changing the note pitches.Start with a single melody line and repeat it a few times.Sing nonsense syllables or placeholder lyrics so you can focus on the melody only. Using the groove you created in the previous session (or a karaoke track or beat) add a few melody lines to it. ◆ Write a melody to a rhythm track (30 min.)
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