Welcome to Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics-Welcome!
A Note From Pat
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Welcome to Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics-Orientation
Course Resources
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The Journey of the Song-Welcome to Lesson 1
Lesson 1 Suggested Reading
Lesson 1 Song List
The Journey of the Song-Identifying Point of View and Identifying the Development Engine
Point of View
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Boxes: Your Development Engine
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Six Best Friends
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Song Form
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The Journey of the Song-Developing an Idea
Developing an Idea from the Title
"Fool's Gold" Development Example
Stopping and Going-Welcome to Lesson 2
Lesson 2 Suggested Reading
Lesson 2 Song List
Stopping and Going-Stopping and Going
Prosody
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Practice: Stable or Unstable?
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Five Compositional Elements
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Effects of Number of Lines
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Length of Lines
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Effects of Length of Lines
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Sonic GPS—Mapping Your Song with Rhyme-Welcome to Lesson 3
Lesson 3 Suggested Reading
Lesson 3 Song List
Sonic GPS—Mapping Your Song with Rhyme-Sonic GPS—Mapping Your Song with Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme, Part 1
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Rhyme Scheme, Part 2
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Perfect Rhyme
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Family Rhyme
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Finding Family Rhymes
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Additive and Subtractive Rhyme
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Assonance Rhyme
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Consonance Rhyme
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Using Rhyme to Generate Ideas
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Organizing Your Ideas by Developing Rhyme Schemes, Part 1
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Organizing Your Ideas by Developing Rhyme Schemes, Part 2
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Stable and Unstable Tones, Part 1
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Stable and Unstable Tones, Part 2
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Making It Move-Welcome to Lesson 4
Lesson 4 Suggested Reading
Making It Move-Making It Move
Multi-Syllable Words
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One-Syllable Words
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Stressed vs. Unstressed Syllables
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Rhythm
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Developing an Idea Through the Boxes
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Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 1
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Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 2
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Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 3
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Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 4
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Making It Move-Crossing the Finished Line
"Pieces," Part 1
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"Pieces," Part 2
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"Pieces," Part 3
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