How to Write Original Holiday Songs
’Tis the season to spice up your catalog of originals with holiday songwriting tips courtesy of songwriter Brady Rymer, Berklee Online songwriting instructors Andrea Stolpe and Jimmy Kachulis, as well as Berklee’s Joe Bennett, who helped compose what is winkingly known as “the happiest Christmas song, according to science.”
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How to Write a Love Song
The key to a great love song is a specific yet universal message that feels like it’s about you and your special someone. This is how you achieve that.
How to Choose a Song Title
As a songwriter, finding a song title is the big question, and the hard one, because a title is only as good as your imagination—your ability to do something interesting with it. Pat Pattison shares how you can make your song titles more interesting.
Song Lyrics Generators: Are They Good for Songwriters?
As a professional songwriter, I was highly suspicious that song lyric generators would be sophisticated enough to generate complete songs. However, this does not render their services completely useless.
3 Lessons H.E.R.’s ‘Hard Place’ can Teach us about Songwriting
Andrea Stolpe walks us through H.E.R.’s song “Hard Place,” and tells us why it’s a great example of prosody, and how you can apply the same principles to your songwriting.
3 Songwriting Lessons from The 1975’s ‘Give Yourself a Try’
Berklee Online instructor and multiplatinum songwriter Andrea Stolpe discusses how to embrace lyrical and melodic ideas that don’t always agree, using the example of the 1975’s song, “Give Yourself a Try.”
How to Write a Song Using Imagery
Learn how to write a song using imagery in a series of video tutorials by Berklee Online songwriting instructor Andrea Stolpe.
4 Critical Listening Tips for Songwriters
One of the most important techniques you can learn as a songwriter is how to listen critically. We start by breaking the different components of a song into four large moving parts: Melody, Chords, Lyric, and Groove.
Song Ideas: 20 Tips for Songwriting Inspiration
Berklee Online course author Andrea Stolpe provides 20 tips to help you jumpstart your songwriting process and generate song ideas.
How to Write a Bridge to a Song
The problem with bridges is we’re often more clear about what we don’t want them to be than what we do.