Songwriting Tips with Shane Adams
The most important quality in songwriting is melody. In this video tutorial, Shane Adams provides songwriting strategies for making your melodies stronger.
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5 Ways to Stop Writing the Same Old Song
When songwriters write with any regularity, it’s natural to reach a point where many of our songs sound similar. Here are 5 ways out of a songwriting rut!
Songwriting Techniques Using Destination and Object Writing
With these songwriting tips from Berklee Online instructor Andrea Stolpe, learn how to write lyrics using the destination writing technique.
Using Brand Names in Your Songwriting: The Creative Perspective and the Business Prospective
As a songwriter, my job is to pack three minutes with as much imagery as I can, both lyrically and musically.
Lyric Writing Tips That Only Take 5 Minutes
Sometimes, songwriting can feel like pushing a boulder uphill. But songwriting tools help us work through difficult songs or plateaus in our writing.
Tips for Writing Big Message Songs
There are two topics they say never to bring up with your inlaws – religion and politics. Funny enough, those same topics carry some baggage for songwriters, too, though not for the same reasons.
How to Become a Unique Songwriter
What many artists don’t realize is that originality is not planned, but the product of fervent exploration leading to happy accidents.
How to Find a Music Collaborator
Berklee Online songwriting instructor Andrea Stolpe talks about finding a collaborator as a songwriter and what they can bring to your music.
Song Lyrics: Writing with Small Moments
If you’ve been writing songs very long, you may have heard how important “imagery” can be in songwriting.
How to Write Song Lyrics
Learn how to write song lyrics for the first time with these five steps from singer and multiplatinum songwriter Andrea Stolpe at Berklee Online.