A Short Songwriting Lesson, Part 1
Mar
12
2008
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Andrea Stolpe is a multi-platinum recorded songwriter, performing artist, and educator. She has worked as a staff writer for EMI, Almo-Irving, and Universal Music Publishing, with songs recorded by Faith Hill, Josh Gracin, Daniel Lee Martin and many others. She is the author of Commercial Songwriting Techniques. Released in August 2007, Stolpe's book Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling describes how to apply her unique process for uniting our artistic voice with the commercial market. She continues to tour as a solo artist and lead songwriting workshops nationally and abroad.Online Courses
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Great stuff, as usual. Your ability to simplify complex topics and articulate them is amazing. Love the song!
Thanks for this post. It clarified important things to me.
Cheers,
Jorge Assis
Hi Andrea!
Great lesson! Simple but VERY effective. Love the motif teaching. I don’t think enough about motif’s! Yet they are the basis of every incredible melody!
Doug
After watching half of this video lesson, I picked up a guitar and wrote a melody using your tips/suggestions and it’s one of the best I’ve come up with this year out of about 70 songs. Thank you.
I say, thank you, Andrea, for your instructions and help during the course to which you are teaching us right now online with Berklee College of Music… I am better understanding what I am doing and why… merci beaucoup!.. (thank you)
Patty Maggie Anne Hunter
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