CREATIVE SONG LYRICS
Self-teaching Manual
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Self-Teaching Guide to
WRITING SONG LYRICS
By Paul Rodricks
Have you ever felt the urge to write your own songs?
To compose your own lyrics and melody?
Are you a lyricist wishing to set music to your lyrics?
Or a music composer desirous of writing the lyrics to
your music?
Or a music lover and hobbyist wondering how songs are crafted?
If so, Creative Songwriting is just the right practical
self-teaching manual for you. Because Songwriting has
never been made so easy and simple.
CREATIVE SONGLYRICS
Is all about Lyrics Composing – Song forms, Title/Hook lines, Storylines and Themes, Rhyme Scheme, Crafting the Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Tag, Song Performing Styles and much more.
The latest in Gospel/Worship Songwriting is also presented in a whole separate chapter devoted to it in this book.
Become a successful Songwriter. Compose your own Lyrics and Music to styles such as Pop, Rock, Blues, Country, R&B, Jazz and Gospel.
Lyrics: The Composition
Section 1 (Continued)
“The soul never thinks without a mental picture.”
– Aristotle
Here's a Preview of the SECTION ONE (Continued)
from the Creative SongLyrics Manual:
Popular Forms of Lyrics (Contd.)
2. ABABAB - wherein you have the 1st Verse-Chorus-2nd Verse-Chorus Repeat-3rd Verse-Chorus Repeat,
OR the most popular form which is: ABABCB - a Bridge (of 4 to 8 lines) after the 2nd Chorus-Repeat. Sometimes, though, the Bridge takes the place of the Chorus-Repeat after the 2nd Verse (ABAC).
The variation may depend on the duration of the song and generally the particular genre or style it is meant for, viz. pop, rock, country, R&B and others. This is really a matter of choice for the songwriter and finally the performers.
*Any song that has a Chorus may or may not start with the Chorus before the 1st Verse. Many popular songs actually do so, for a specific effect.
Example of BABABAB Form: Song Title: "Man, When She Walks" Copyright 2002 Paul Rodericks
Chorus (B):
Man, when she walks, oh can she swing,
Heads turn, heartbeats swaying,
She cuts the mood, wishing ya' could,
Be her dude for just one evening.
Verse 1 (A):
She's a goddess on a swing, believe me,
Her come-along look leaves ya' guessing,
Is she inviting ya' or merely teasing,
Man, when she walks, oh can she swing!
Chorus (B):
Repeat
Verse 2 (A):
She's known to have had men aplenty,
Only to love, then jilt 'em - oh, really?
I just don't care even to be her plaything,
Man, when she walks, oh can she swing
Chorus (B):
Repeat
The above is followed by a 3rd Verse (A), the Chorus (B) is repeated.
Example here of ABABCB Form: “A Solitary Silhouette”, Copyright 2006 Ester Sterling - Paul Rodericks
Verse 1 (A):
Gray is all that she what she wore
Debonair as the moonlit glow
Amidst flaring embers of her cigarettes
A solitary silhouette.
Chorus (B):
A solitary silhouette
Wrapped in Gray
Puffing clouds of smoke at Midnight
As un-caring, as her cigarettes
She has a tale, she can't re-call,
And sleep, she can't at all
Her feelings dry as a desert
A solitary silhouette.
Verse 2 (A)
For a moment in her time
Enters a shred of peace of mind
And the stirrings of forgotten desires and yet
A solitary silhouette.
Chorus (B):
Repeat
Verse 3 (A):
Is she the images I cast
The reflections of my past
The life I don't know and so can't regret
A solitary silhouette.
Bridge (C):
My life drifts on an outline
Past or new, have yet to find
But it is mine, only mine...
To create and design. .
Chorus (B):
Repeat
To be continued...
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