How To Write Songs - 5 Melodic Methods for Creating the Perfect Pre-Chorus!

Описание: The key to creating a perfect pre-chorus is TENSION - and the releasing of this tension helps to create big, beautiful and impactful CHORUSES!

In this video, Part 2 of our 3-part series on Pre-Choruses, we examine 5 easy melodic methods for building and releasing tension throughout the sections of your song. We look at ways to manipulate the shape and direction of your melody, zoom in on specific note choices and play around with unstable structures that resolve in satisfying ways when you finally get to the chorus. Featuring Katy Perry, Foy Vance, Imagine Dragons and Lady Antebellum.

SECTIONS
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - #1 Rising Melodic Contour
02:33 - #2 Ending on Unstable Note
05:44 - #3 Syncopation
07:42 - #4 A-B-A Structures
12:05 - #5 Contour Contrast
15:12 - Wrap-up

MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO

'Firework' by Katy Perry, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm, Ester Dean - Capitol 2010

'Never Enough' from 'The Greatest Showman' by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul 2018

'Need You Now' by Lady Antebellum - Capitol Nashville 2009

'She Burns' by Foy Vance - Gingerbread Man 2016

'Believer' by Imagine Dragons - Interscope Kidinakorner 2017


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ABOUT KEPPIE

I'm Keppie. 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—Berklee Online, 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.

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 gathered with anyone who wants to improve their songwriting.

Keppie's music is here:
https://www.keppiecouttsmusic.com/music

ABOUT BEN

Ben's passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. He is a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia's best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas.

Ben is also the Founder and Head Producer of SILAMOR STUDIOS, a boutique studio specialising in Composition for Film, TV and Interactive Media. He writes extensively across various instrumental and lyric-based genres and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible. He also currently releases original songs under the name SILAMOR.

Ben is passionate about education and has taught song and lyric writing as well as film composition for JMC Academy and the Australian Institute of Music. He also designs and regularly facilitates workshops on creative process and innovation.

Links to Ben's music are here:

The Green Mohair Suits
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7M3Zf...

SILAMOR
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5HOpa...
http://www.silamor.com/music

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