Object Writing: Songwriting Exercise
An object writing exercise is one of the easiest ways to keep song ideas flowing and find new ideas. Inspiration is sometimes a hard thing to come by. This…
Songwriting Exercises
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Ghost Song Songwriting Exercise
Stuck with a blank page and nothing is really inspiring you? Use the ghost song process. Start with a song you like and build a new one! Ghost song…
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Rhyme Pattern Proxy
This one is great to use if you’re stuck on a song and works pretty quickly. The goal is to force you to find new words or ways to phrase…
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Create Your Own Rules
Create your own rules to govern how you’ll write the song. You can create rules that defy conventional rules, or just put a twist on a direction you would…
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Songwriting Exercise: Write For An Artist
This songwriting exercise focuses on writing for an artist. You’ll work through some simple steps to: (1) find an artist that works with your style of writing, and (2)…
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Understanding Perspective
Perspective is the voice of the speaker, informed by their beliefs, upbringing, cultural heritage and most importantly for a song, how they’re taking in the situation. Are they thinking…
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Switch Point Of View Exercise
One of the easiest ways to increase your understanding of point of view (POV) is to take a song you’ve completed and switch the point of view. Changing up your point…
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Writing Lyrics: Allusion Exercise
Find the Allusions Around You One of the best ways to pull a new technique or concept into your songwriting is do a lyric allusion exercise. For this one,…
