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SECTION 2 - The Title Line or HOOK

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.


     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 TWO

SAMPLING

 “To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only  touch with reality.” –  Ellen Glasgow

The Title Line or HOOK
(The make or break element of the Song)



     Make the title prompt you to write the song. After all it is the title of your song that people will relate to most – first and last. People are fascinated by the title when they listen to a song or read it on the CD cover. If your title interests you, the same could happen to others. So it is your duty to ensure that the title is the best one you can come up with, one that also tells what your song is about.

     How and where do you start? Impromptu! Well, if you are undecided on a topic, start randomly making a list of titles – whatever short lines or phrases that crop up in your mind – on whatever subjects or topics. Do not critique and do not reason. Make it appear like fun. Just keep on writing till you have listed down quite a few of them to begin with.
     
     You can then sort them out and you will be surprised to find more than line of phrase or expression worthy of expounding or depicting into a full-fledged theme. You start dressing up the title/s colorfully, that is, finding or replacing the original words that form the title with those most appropriate ones that sound as emotional and graphic as possible. Your thesaurus would be of immense help here. Once you have the title ready or even the hint of it, the other elements of the theme will flow through your thought-process as you proceed building up the theme from any perspective [point of view], part-by part, from a mere outline into a complete set of lyrics. It is also possible sometimes that you would want to compose the title after you have done the chorus or a couple of the verses first, that is, considering that you already have an idea of what the theme of your song is about.


Starting Guidelines

     1. Look into your random list. Have you short-listed some of the titles that appear interesting, however vague?
     
     2. Alternatively, switch on the TV and latch onto some news item titles or action dialogues from movies and interviews that sound interesting to you. Other immediate sources are magazines, books, newspapers, CDs covers, conversational phrases, even slang, sermons or just anything that catches your fancy.
     
     3. Write down the actual words or titles you hear or read. Then swap, add and replace words of the title line to make it finally look as personal and to your liking as possible.
     
     4. Study the title/s from various angles or point of view. If you apply the five W‟s – What, When, Where, Why and How to any title or line of thought, you will find yourself coming up with many ideas one or two of which you could develop into your song‟s storyline. This will be discussed in greater details later when dealing with the development of each section of the song.

Title Line Can Tell a Tale

“Why does it have to be this Way?”
“Don’t Let Us Be Messing"
“Playing the Waiting Game"
"She has Stars In her Eyes”
"This Sunrise is Mine”
“Never Seen So Many Rainbows Before”

Each of these titles is easy to grasp, to relate to and each can tell a story from many different perspectives or points of view.


To be continued...


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