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How To Write Songs • October 15, 2023

How To Write Songs

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Welcome to our channel, HOW TO WRITE SONGS. We are Keppie Coutts, and Ben Romalis, two professional songwriters, performing artists and teachers with over 40 years of collective experience in the music industry. We have studied and taught at some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world including Berklee College of Music, Sydney Conservatorium, the Australian College of the Arts, the Australian Institute of Music, the LA School of Songwriting and JMC Academy. Our goal is to help people write better songs! Our belief, having worked with thousands of songwriters (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful and deliberate practice. Our intention is to share the skills, knowledge and ideas that we've had the privilege of gathering with others who embrace the art and craft of songwriting.

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🌶 Songwriting Course! "The Songwriting Process Start to Finish" - 3 hours of perfectly sequenced learning, with demonstrations, examples, and 18 downloadable resources -https://howtowritesongs.org/the-songwriting-process-start-to-finish/ In this video, I address a really common issue for lots of musically-oriented songwriters: feeling like all the lyrics you write a boring, or cliche. I go through 5 different exercises that you can do to both get over the feeling that your lyrics are bad, but that can very quickly get you writing GREAT lyrics. 👪 Join a Songwriting Group: https://howtowritesongs.org/songwriting-group-info-and-registration/ 🔶 Join our international Songwriters Community - get access to free workshops, live feedback sessions with Keppie and Benny, and more: https://howtowritesongs.org/community/ 00:00 Introduction 00:22 Tuning into the 'helpful' critic 03:33 Getting better at anything 03:55 70/20/10 04:58 Exercise 1 06:56 Exercise 2 08:09 Exercise 3 13:01 Exercise 4 15:04 Exercise 5