Hit Songwriting
101 - Compose Yourself (and with friends)
- →Analysis
- →More composing tips, tricks, and exercises
- →Master the use of chords, scales, musical form, rhythm, melody in your compositions.
- →Habits and Techniques
- →What makes a hit?
- →Form
- →Chord Progressions
- →Hooks in the track
- →Repetition
- →Common Tones
- →"Fly on the wall": how songs get written and developed
- →Harmony
201 - Tackling the Top-line
- →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).
- →Get the creative juices flowing, writing lyrics, melodies, and song concepts -- rhyme, meter, and writing techniques for musicians. Writing Top Line
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The syllabus, in brief.
101 - Compose Yourself (and with friends)
- →Analysis
- →More composing tips, tricks, and exercises
- →Master the use of chords, scales, musical form, rhythm, melody in your compositions.
- →Habits and Techniques
- →What makes a hit?
- →Form
- →Chord Progressions
- →Hooks in the track
- →Repetition
- →Common Tones
- →"Fly on the wall": how songs get written and developed
- →Harmony
201 - Tackling the Top-line
- →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).
- →Get the creative juices flowing, writing lyrics, melodies, and song concepts -- rhyme, meter, and writing techniques for musicians. Writing Top Line
Stay Connected
- →We will not share your information [contact-form-7 id="5689"]
Instructors
Common questions, answered.
No. The course works from the song outwards; bring your ideas and the tools come as you go.
Yes. The Hit Songwriting course can be taught one-to-one, in person in Nashville or online, built around your own projects - ask admissions about private instruction.
Yes. The Hit Songwriting course runs in person at Garnish Nashville and live online in the same sessions, using our music collaboration software, Muse - you join whichever suits you.
Melody, lyric and structure - what separates a song from a hit, and how to write more of the latter.
The Hit Songwriting course runs 30 hours. Tuition at Garnish Nashville: 30 Hours - In-Person: $1199 + $100 Registration Fee - 33% off Live Online.
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