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5 Steps For Easily And Quickly Writing Song Lyrics
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Jan 3, 2022
++ HIT-CREATION CHECKLIST ++ (Write the next hit song) https://www.orpheusaudioacademy.com/hit ✏️ SHOW NOTES ✏️ Songwriters are the poets of today. But writing effective and creative lyrics is tough. Where do you start? How do you get an idea onto paper? The good news is writing powerful song lyrics doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, it is very much possible for you to be able to easily create lyrics. It just takes having an affective process that works for you, and some practice. Everyone is going to have their own unique system that works for them, and there is no one way to write great lyrics. That being said, if you are looking for some help, here are 5 simple steps to help you easily create lyrics. ⛓️ LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO ⛓️ 🔗 Song Maps Book: https://www.orpheusaudioacademy.com/songmaps 🔗 Hit Creation Checklist: https://www.orpheusaudioacademy.com/hit
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Hey, do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper or a blank screen, racking your
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brain, trying to figure out what to write when it comes to creating lyrics for your music
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Well, stick around because I'm going to share with you five steps to creating lyrics quickly
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and easily. Hi, I'm Regan Ram with OrpheusAudioAcademy.com, helping you make better music and grow your
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fan base online. Now, lyricists, they are the poets of today, but creating those awesome lyrics for your music, that is easier said than done
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Well, the good news is that writing powerful and effective lyrics doesn't have to be difficult
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In fact, this can be a fairly simple and straightforward process once you have created a system for yourself
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Now of course everyone has their own unique way of creating lyrics and so what I teach
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in this video might not work for you but it's what I do and it works for me
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So if you're looking for some help here are five steps to creating lyrics
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So step one is to create the theme for your song and the theme for your lyrics
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What is the overall concept of what your song is going to be about
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What is the message you want to convey? You might think about what is it that you are trying to teach, examine, reflect on, celebrate
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or draw attention to with your song lyric. This can be a person, a place, or a thing, or an emotion, or an experience, really anything
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of course, anything goes when it comes to creating a song theme
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So when it comes to creating your song theme, you might want to think about what is your
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broader music culture, what is the brand you're creating with your music, and try to draw from
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that so that you are creating a theme. You're writing songs about concepts that your audience
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enjoys and connects to. All right, so step two then is the mind dump. This is where you just
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dump out everything that's in your brain when it comes to your theme, your chosen theme that you
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picked in the last step. This can be individual words, whole phrases, sentences, or even several
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paragraphs. Just getting out all the things that you have to say about that topic or that theme
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that you are writing your song about. So just literally write out anything that comes to mind
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about your theme. For example, if your theme is say, courage in the face of overwhelming odds
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what comes to mind when you think about that? What picture is created in your mind
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So use the mind dump face to describe that picture and focus less on individual words
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and more think about the images or phrases or feelings that come up when you think about that theme And again nothing is dumb nothing is stupid right Just get everything out Get it all out on paper And right you not going to probably use most of it
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but this can kind of give you a direction to work towards
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So don't hold anything back, but also be sure to give yourself a deadline
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You don't want this to kind of drag on forever. So maybe give yourself 10 minutes to do this
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Just get all everything out of your brain, onto paper or onto a Word document
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or wherever you write your lyrics so that you've got that raw material to work with and you go to
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actually craft lyrics. All right, step number three is to come up with all the potential words you
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might want to use in your lyrics. This is where you convert all the ideas you had in the previous
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stage into a consumable, understandable format. So look at your mind dump and try to condense or
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summarize your big thoughts and ideas into recognizable words and phrases. After all
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that's what words are. They are placeholders for ideas. Keep in mind, you don't need to actually be
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constructing sentences here or writing out any lyrical phrases yet. You're just coming up with
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words that you may want to draw from and use in your song. You might even consider using a thesaurus
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to help you as well if the words you're coming up with just don't accurately reflect those ideas you
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came up with in the previous step. And again, keep in mind, what is your music brand? What is your
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music culture? What kind of words, phrases, ideas, concepts do your fans enjoy? And use that as your
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guide throughout this entire process. All right, now step four is to tell a story with the words
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that you have now created. All right, so you've got an assemblage of words, potential words that
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you're going to want to use. Obviously, you're probably going to be pulling in new words as you
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actually go to create your lyrics but this is a starting point and you want to arrange them into
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a meaningful order in other words a story because stories are what's powerful stories are what change
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people right you can think about any maybe novel you've read or a movie you've watched that's really
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stuck with you it's probably because it had a powerful theme and story behind it this is because
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stories just convey a lot more much clearer picture to someone than if you just told them something
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It really kind of gets past the logical brain into the emotional side of things
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So it's easier to accept and understand and really see the light when it comes to getting
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across a message. This is why common advice for novelists is to show don tell with their writing In other words you want to actually describe the scene actually describe the feelings describe what people are learning describe what happens
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versus just telling the reader what is happening. That's the difference between really a story
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and just kind of preaching at someone. And the great thing about music is
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I think you can actually tell a story without using any lyrics at all
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That's just the power of music. It has that power to convey emotions just through sound
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So use the sound of your music to help you and guide you as you go about creating your lyrics
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So how do you go about telling a story then with your lyrics
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Well, think about the general story plot line that just about every book or movie follows
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It's been referred to as the hero's journey. So you usually have your hero, they start at one place
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And maybe they're content where they're at, but they're not really happy. They're not really fulfilled
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and then they progress towards some goal and along the way they experience conflict
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until they inevitably either break through and succeed or if it's a tragedy, they fail
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and they don't hit their goal. So that is kind of the big picture view
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of creating a story. But what are some different, maybe story plot lines or ideas or concepts
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or elements that you can draw from to help make your story writing process easier
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Well, Simon Hawkins in his book Song Maps observes that there are basically seven different common song formats that you can follow and they
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are tension and response, problem, declaration, time zones, places, roles, twist, and literal
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slash figurative. Tension and response is by far the most common and a good place to start
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So if you use this model your song structure might look something like verse one how the tension is
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sensed. Chorus one, the response. Verse two, how the response is sensed. Chorus two, the response
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Bridge, how I feel about the response. And then you have the final chorus, which again repeats
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that response and drives home the theme, the message, the idea of the song. Another way of
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thinking about this is you want the verses of your song to progress the storyline and then the
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the choruses of your song reinforce the message or the theme or the idea or the climax, the
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resolution of the story. And your bridge is kind of a wild card. It can be whatever you want. It can be a
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different perspective on what going on It can be an aside or it can be just a reflection on the story as a whole Whatever you want really that the beauty of a bridge it kind of an optional wild card type section of your song
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again there's no hard and fast rules when it comes to songwriting so do whatever you want and what
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you think works but this is kind of a good structure to start with if you find yourself
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stuck and that leads us to step five which is to just write now write those lyrics and don't let
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yourself get stuck just start writing and even if you hate them you don't like what's writing
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just push through it anyway and because the more you write the better you will get so you've got
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to push through the bad before you can get to the good so write one song to the best of your ability
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and then write another and another and another and over time you're going to get better so keep
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improving keep making progress and don't get hung up on any one individual song because that is
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actually going to stunt your growth trying to revise and revise and improve and improve you
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actually will improve much faster if you just get the song done get it out there get it recorded and
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then you move on to the next one and the next one and you're going to grow a lot faster that way because you're also going to be getting feedback from people as you release your music creating
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quality lyrics and music is definitely very important but you can't arrive at quality unless
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you've produced enough quantity this doesn't mean you have to release everything but you definitely
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want to be creating a lot. So create enough quantity and you will arrive at quality. Now
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if you want more help with creating awesome lyrics and songs in general, then definitely grab my free
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all the hit songs tend to have in common and give you a lot of good tips for song structure, lyric
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content, and so on. So you write those songs that people enjoy. Even if it's not a hit, you know
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it's following the elements that we as humans tend to enjoy in music and songs. So again
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that's free. You can grab that in the description below. All right, let me know in the comments, what helps you when you go to write song lyrics? What is your number one tip that you would give
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someone who is trying to write song lyrics? All right, if you found this video helpful
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well. Alright, have an awesome day and I'll see you in a future video. Bye
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