Songwriting Tip: A Three-Stage Rocket to Lyric Writing! Brilliant Article via #songbayteam

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Is your lyric structured correctly?

Lyrics are designed to work with songs, therefore your lyric needs to have a song structure. Are you completely familar with song structures? For commercial, pop, country, rock, soul, hip hop songs, you need to have clearly defined sections. This is the most common song structure:

  • Verse 1
  • Chorus
  • Verse 2
  • Chorus
  • Bridge
  • Chorus
So when writing lyrics,  you should indicate the song structure sections on your lyric. This way the composer knows how your lyric is intended to work. Here's a great article on this very subject >>  


Songwriting Tip: A Three-Stage Rocket to Lyric Writing! Brilliant Article via #songbayteam

Writing Lyrics In Stages   Thanks to Robin Frederick for this article! www.RobinFrederick.com   When NASA blasted a rocket into orbit, they did it in stages: The big lift-off, a second stage to get the payload into orbit and a third to fine tune the direction. So, what’s this got to do with writing lyrics? You can think of the lyric writing process in three stages: 1. Getting started. (Lift off) 2. Developing your idea. (Getting into orbit) 3. Rewriting (Fine tune it) => Continue