Hit Songwriting Course | Tokyo
- →Learning how to craft powerful melodies and lyric ideas for your tracks.
- →Understanding harmony and melody movement.
- →Get the most out of your writing by understanding how to craft more emotive and detailed lyrics.
- →What makes a lyric relatable, how to choose interesting concepts in today’s industry. How to twist the common topics and lyrical safe bets that work every time.
- →Using music theory for melodies.
- →Understanding melody patterns in pop music.
- →Harmonic and melodic intervals.
- →Different methods to start a top line – melody or lyric first?
- →Finding your own style and feet (creative exercises).
- →Analyze today's billboard hits and some of the classics to understand the patterns in hit music writing.
- →Pitching, Publishing, and PR.
- →Pitching your songs to artists on the latest watchlists.
- →What do the briefings mean? How to ‘decode’ them and know your audience.
- →Tips, tricks and politics for a songwriter.
- →Track examples from different camps.
- →What works and what gets used.
- →Understanding the different types of royalties, publishing deals, splits etc.
- →How to brand and market yourself and your music using social media.
- →Co-writes.
- →Splits.
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