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Edwins Top 50 Songwriting Tips
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Edwin's Top 50 Songwriting Tips • 01 Boxify your titles • 02 12 Box Your Album • 03 Album Per Quarter • 04 Moodboard • 05 In Parallel, Several on the Boil • 06 Partial Rhymes • 07 Interesting Time Signature • 08 Spotlights • 09 Accidental Note • 10 Accidental Chord • 11 Sing! No Instrument or Chords • 12 Speech-Derived Rhythm • 13 Try a Mode • 14 Improvisation from a standard • 15 Write down the melody notes • 16 Placeholder Nonsense Words • 17 Minor • 18 Same Chords Verse and Chorus • 19 Octave Melody • 20 Break • 21 Pedal Tones / Drone • 22 Penta No 2nd/6th m or no 4th/7thM • 23 Rearrange Guitar / Volume whilst singing • 24 Looping and NoodleComping • 25 Dreams • 26 Use a Cool Chord: mM7, mM9, 11, Slash • 27 Use an Even Cooler Chord: 7b5, 7#9, 7+, 6/9 • 28 FEEL IT! • 29 First Touch, First Word • 30 Short Intro / Chorus First • 31 Every 5 Seconds • 32 Ditch a Verse or two / Over-write • 33 No Chorus • 34 Try a Key Change • 35 Hybridise Two Styles / Change a Song's Style • 36 Ventilated Rhythm • 37 Dynamics, Light and Shade • 38 Make the Chorus a Verse • 39 Alt Tuning • 40 Children's Song • 41 Riff / Motif • 42 Through-Composed • 43 LandSong • 44 Lyrics First • 45 Poem • 46 Instrumental Chorus • 47 Congruency Test • 48 Eyebrows / Ham it UP • 49 Audience Participation • 50 Object Writing / Object Poeming • • Many of these are Edwin's ideas but a bunch are adapted and adopted from the following great people whom you should check out, many thanks to them: • Boo Hewerdine http://www.boohewerdine.net/workshops... • Joe Bennett http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com http://joebennett.net/ • Pat Pattison https://www.coursera.org/course/songw... • Gary Burton https://www.coursera.org/course/impro... • Michael Garrick RIP http://www.jazzacademy.co.uk • Gary Ewer http://garyewer.wordpress.com • Chris Difford http://www.chrisdifford.com/ • Karine Polwart http://www.karinepolwart.com • Juliet Russell http://www.londonsongcompany.com/cour... • http://www.fawm.org • http://www.napowrimo.net • http://www.landsong.org • Songs quoted: • Lonesome Woods sung by Andy Turner http://andyturner.bandcamp.com/track/... • Kiss from a Rose by Seal • Seal - Kiss From a Rose (unplugged) • Upside Down written by Nile Rodgers • Diana Ross - Upside down • Georgie sung by Martin Carthy • Martin Carthy - Georgie • Rather Be by Clean Bandit • Clean Bandit - Rather Be ft. Jess Gly... • Get Lucky played by George Barnett • Video • Happy by Pharrell Williams • Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official M... • Walk the Line by Johnny Cash • Video • Chop Suey by System of a Down • System Of A Down - Chop Suey! (Offici... • Chop Suey by Richard Cheese • Video • Four Little Ants by Robyn Mackenzie / robynmackenziemusic • Spoonman by Soundgarden • Video • Your Backyard by Edwin Datschefski and Mari Kozlowski / your-backyard-cowrite-with • Icky Thump by The White Stripes • Video
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