CREATIVE SONG LYRICS
Self-teaching Manual
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.
Here's a Preview of the SECTION ONE from the Creative SongLyrics Manual:
Basic Form or Structure of Song
Understanding the framework of a song is essential if we are to write excellent lyrics and music and even sing or perform better, particularly so to acquiring the ability to improvise spontaneously.
It is the familiarity with the song structure that the listener is comfortable with when listening to new a song - its lyrics and music. The standard structures of songs like pop, rock, country, blues, Latin and the others, which the people have been listening for decades and are easily able to relate to. Maybe one of the reasons why jazz and classical music are difficult for most people to enjoy is owing to unfamiliarity with the structure of such music.
Main Song Components
Following are the main components of a song:
Song Structure Terms
The short forms generally made use of in songwriting to indicate a song structure are:
Popular Forms of Lyrics
For depicting the popular forms of song lyrics of today, we have:
1. AABA - meaning, the 1st Verse A is followed by the 2nd Verse AA and the latter by the Chorus B.
In this form, you normally have 3 to 4 verses and the same Chorus is repeated twice; or as AAB-AAB - where the first combination of AAB would be followed by another one of AAB and may or may not end with a Tag consisting of two or more lines taken (and repeated) from the verse or chorus or just the Title as it is popularly known, the Hook. This form or variation of it is sometimes favored by the blues and rock artists.
Example: Song Title: "She is a Zombie", Lyrics Copyright 2002 Paul Rodericks:
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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.
Here's a Preview of the SECTION ONE from the Creative SongLyrics Manual:
Lyrics: The Composition
Section 1
“The soul never thinks without a mental picture.”
– Aristotle
Basic Form or Structure of Song
Understanding the framework of a song is essential if we are to write excellent lyrics and music and even sing or perform better, particularly so to acquiring the ability to improvise spontaneously.
It is the familiarity with the song structure that the listener is comfortable with when listening to new a song - its lyrics and music. The standard structures of songs like pop, rock, country, blues, Latin and the others, which the people have been listening for decades and are easily able to relate to. Maybe one of the reasons why jazz and classical music are difficult for most people to enjoy is owing to unfamiliarity with the structure of such music.
Main Song Components
Following are the main components of a song:
- Title or the Hook
- Verse
- Chorus, also called the Bridge in earlier music terminology
- Bridge (optional)
- Tag (optional)
Song Structure Terms
The short forms generally made use of in songwriting to indicate a song structure are:
- "A‟ for the Verse
- "B‟ for the Chorus
- "C‟ for the Bridge
- "Tag‟ for a brief ending
Popular Forms of Lyrics
For depicting the popular forms of song lyrics of today, we have:
1. AABA - meaning, the 1st Verse A is followed by the 2nd Verse AA and the latter by the Chorus B.
In this form, you normally have 3 to 4 verses and the same Chorus is repeated twice; or as AAB-AAB - where the first combination of AAB would be followed by another one of AAB and may or may not end with a Tag consisting of two or more lines taken (and repeated) from the verse or chorus or just the Title as it is popularly known, the Hook. This form or variation of it is sometimes favored by the blues and rock artists.
Example: Song Title: "She is a Zombie", Lyrics Copyright 2002 Paul Rodericks:
A (1st Verse):
No colors to her dawn
No depth to her sleep
No fears to succumb
Nor rules of ethic
A creature by necessity
She's a Zombie.
AA (2nd Verse):
No colors to her dreams
No depth to her mind
No patriotic hymns
Nor love of any kind
A creature by necessity
She's a Zombie.
B (Chorus):
She's a Zombie
From her reflections within
A wall around her senses
A creature by necessity
She's a Zombie.
Then generally follows the other combination of AAB - the 3rd & 4th Verse and the Chorus Repeat.
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