Songwriting Workshop | RHYMING LIKE A PRO
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Crack open your songwriting by learning how to find and use unexpected and memorable rhymes for your lyrics.
About this event
WHAT WE'LL COVER IN THE WORKSHOP
The "perfect rhymes" that dominated the American Songbook era of songwriting in the early 20th Century are no longer the main vehicle for contemporary songwriters seeking to express a range of ideas and emotions. In 90 minutes, we'll look at 6 different types of rhyme that are the sound palette for all contemporary songwriters.
While analyzing lots of contemporary examples that span different genres, we'll see how great lyric writers understand the level of resolution that the different types of rhyme create, and how songwriters use that to express emotion.
We'll also practice a method for using online resources to fill your palette with unexpected and interesting rhyming options, that will ultimately empower you to use rhyme to express your ideas in better ways, rather than letting a rhyme push your idea into a corner.
WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR
This workshop is for songwriters, lyricists, or other writers of any level of experience, seeking ways to make their lyrics more interesting, memorable, and less cliched. It's also for anyone looking for some creative inspiration, and different angles to approach songwriting to freshen up your practice.
THIS WORKSHOP IS TAUGHT BY KEPPIE
Hey there! I'm a professional songwriter, and songwriting teacher. I've been teaching song and lyric writing for over 10 years now for some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world. I teach for the Berklee College of Music (online, from beautiful Sydney, Australia), for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Open Academy, as well as for the Australian College of the Arts. At other times, I've taught for the Australian Institute of Music, as well as the LA School of Songwriting.
As a professional songwriter, I work in collaboration with many artists—from Indie bluegrass Canadians, to major label pop acts, and even heavy metal. In the past 12 months, songs I have written or co-written have had over 5.3 million streams on Spotify and YouTube.
You can find my music and collaborations here.
My goal is to help people write better songs! My experience in the classroom, with thousands of students at this point (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful, deliberate practice. My intention is to share the skills, knowledge, information, and ideas that I've had the privilege of gathering with anyone who wants to improve their songwriting.
You can check out my YouTube channel, How To Write Songs, here!
You can read my articles and posts on songwriting tips and tidbits here!
