Creating Hooks: Songwriting Tips from Neil Diercks | Berklee Online | ASCAP | Songwriting

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In this free songwriting tutorial filmed at the 2016 ASCAP Expo, Berklee Online songwriting instructor Neil Diercks offers tips for creating different types and layers of hooks that will make your songs memorable and impactful in the industry.
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About Neil Diercks:
Neil Diercks is a Los Angeles-based songwriter, song coach, and musician. He served for many years in various capacities at Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., in Nashville, beginning as an intern and eventually becoming Manager of A&R Activities. It was within this role that he worked with hit songwriters including Gary Burr, Steve Bogard, Stephony Smith, Jeff Stevens, and Victoria Shaw, who penned hits for artists such as Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Ricky Martin, and Christina Aguilera.
Neil is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he studied songwriting, voice, and music business, and went on to serve on the Board of Trustees for three years. He has lectured and led songwriting workshops internationally, and has won several awards for his teaching, including the UPCEA Excellence in Teaching award (2015); the Pearson Excellence In Online Teaching award (2015); The Berklee College of Music Distinguished Faculty Award for Berklee Online (2016). He currently collaborates with songwriters and artists in Los Angeles and around the globe.

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@defman9414 6 лет назад

Here are some of the main tips from it: (1) Build your song from the ground up... engage brain last. People don't want to think/analyze when they are dancing or listening to music... it must affect them at a core heart level. (2) Fundamental level of a song = groove/rhythm. Compose the melody on a monotone to discover the rhythm. (3) Keep asking yourself questions... how does this affect me emotionally, etc. (4) Build silence into what you are doing. (5) Contrast. (6) Don't make it too complex... instrumental melody do whatever you want... but vocal melody must be easily singable and easily picked up by listener

@kennethochoa7550 2 года назад

boy thanks for penning these note cause nothing stuck but to be fair i was working on filing all my art works so for all you people who think you are great at mulit tasking let this be a lesson 4 you can't talk on the phone, do your home work or watch tv at the same time without making one or the other suffer

@arthurmurfitt7698 2 года назад

Thanks, Def Man 😊

@JamesBond-zd5jx Год назад

Thanks and hallelujah.

@astroo_official 10 месяцев назад

You’re really a Legend 🫡

@dazknight9326 5 месяцев назад

Hmmm. Interesting. Thanx

@lungilengxola925 7 лет назад

Start at 19:30, for those of you who want to focus on the art of melody,.

@rootvalue 7 лет назад

THANK YOU

@DavinaOriakhi 7 лет назад

thanksss

@ericzayne 7 лет назад

THANK YOU...

@joelhutton9748 6 лет назад

Bless

@violinoscar 6 лет назад

Lungile Ngxola thanks, mate

@sonibraun4971 5 лет назад

What people don't understand is that he's representing a concept, it's not about clapping. He just offers very clear tools how to make a song with the hooks you really like - step by step (building up base, beat, melody, lyrics etc.). In the rhythm class I attended we were clapping all the time, everything is about repetition and feeling into the things and getting new ideas. You can dismiss those you don't like and keep or better those that really resonates with you. The same with the lyrics. I really enjoyed the video and learned valuable insights...and wrote a song with hooks I liked right after the video.

@irenashiloh8808 2 года назад

I got the same thread from this video and found it very helpful. I think you are correct, it's about the mental tools that we can use to construct the channel for the music to come to us. I really love your comment, Soni. Thank you for summarizing it so well. 🥰

@shadowbanned7575 6 лет назад

*It's this simple:* Music is a conversation between you and your audience. Music theory is a reference to help you get your point across as effectively and efficiently as possible. This in a sense should be only ADDING to your creation. If it's somehow taking away, then you're utilizing it entirely the wrong way. If used correctly, it increases the chances your audience will connect with what you're playing. Just like speech, you can't just make noises with emotion and expect people to know what you're saying, that is, not unless you do it in a way that can be understood, in their language... Hence the reason music theory came to be in the first place.

@maya-rq5he 3 года назад

well put

@kgbird 3 года назад

Bravo

@MrBryan90 6 лет назад

I feel like I just snuck into an entrepreneurs meeting about which stocks to invest in. This stuff is gold. Especially @ 36:00-37:25, that opened a chamber of secrets o.o

@duniaquirante5083 3 года назад

Harry Potter?

@eqt.studios 4 года назад

I'm a bit shocked about the amount of negative comments in this section here... I think the talk was really nice and it gave me 50 new approaches and things to think about. I also loved the vibe in that room and the mediocre clapping never felt awkward for me - I think it's a sign that the people were really (mentally) engaged - which is good :-D

@Berklee_Online 4 года назад

Thank you for the kind words! 😊

@neilwalsh3977 3 года назад

@@Berklee_Online This is actually fundamentally important stuff. Stravisnky said music begins with the 'lowerarchy'

@EnchantedHarp 3 года назад

I agree. I admit that I watched this at 1.75 speed so maybe that would have helped some people?, but regardless, this video had some very fundamentally important things in it. Many times I get so caught up in the notes and chords and pitch changes, that I feel like I'm meandering through the woods with the melody, so this helped me so much! :)

@duniaquirante5083 3 года назад

Lol pa paaa pararapa, pa pa pa...

@blakepotter7937 2 года назад

To be fair, I wouldn't consider a collective of creatively subjective interpreters anything to warrant the use of"negativity" especially in the realm of the internet. If you got something... thats a winner right there.

@colepeterson9961 6 лет назад

A lot of people are saying negative things about this guy but honestly I like him I can tell he's bringing up something, realizes hes got a million things to say about that little segment of a whole idea, and then moves on and continues with the simplicity of the idea in a way thats understandable without making a 20 hour ordeal of it.

@penayoung 6 лет назад

Love all these berklee videos. It's like a music school on my smartphone!

@Swirlingflame 3 месяца назад

Best songwriting teacher I've ever had!

@ediepetrachi1745 5 лет назад

One of the best teachers I ever had the pleasure, honor to work with !! Neil helps make songs find their way to us...

@irenashiloh8808 2 года назад

I love what you said, "He helps songs find their way to us"... Thank you for that thought.

@WeAreBXC 7 лет назад

I really think the idea they all built a little song together. Would love to see this taken to the extreme and have the 50 people REALLY create a song together.

@StevenMercuryLance 6 лет назад

This was helpful and fun to watch! I almost didn’t watch it because I was reading the comments and people were making it seem like a waste of time. I think reading their start ass - trying to be funny - comments were the true waste of time. Watch it, it’s good.

@christinagraf9724 2 года назад

This was a fun class. Being an extrovert I love the interaction with the students. I wouldn't get bored in his class. Since I'm a beginner 🙄 🙄 I was able to take some info from the class yet have so much to learn. 👍

@pavelalonin5322 6 лет назад

Thanks a lot for subtitles. They're obviously advanced. It's a helpful feature for some foreign listeners.

@joejoexm 6 лет назад

Wow! This really help me see were i need to grow.. and as he was speaking I kept on getting ideas on how to improve what songs I’ve wrote all ready.

@suzanneroux 7 лет назад

Brilliant, thanks so much for putting this out there

@kaulinman9670 7 лет назад

I loved the insights I had with this lesson!!!! Thank you so much!!

@Plafintarr 6 лет назад

Thank you! Time to create some infectious rhythms!

@avinandandey6418 3 года назад

This is a good lecture... BECAUSE IT WASN'T BORING

@cosmicmatrix6238 7 лет назад

thanks for helping me to the next level! OMG

@adamsacresoffgridpermicult499 3 года назад

Very interactive felt like I was sitting there

@pndy2136 3 года назад

This helped! I rote 2 hooks while this lecture!♥️

@restclip Год назад

Very thankful for Berkeley online

@adalbertojohnson8226 7 лет назад

THIS GUY IS A STANDING COMEDIAN

@pacman_pol_pl_polska 7 лет назад

With awful laugh.

@hmph9369 5 лет назад

@@pacman_pol_pl_polska ya it lowkey creeped me out

@quitamaeofficial808 2 года назад

This is the best RU-vid channel ever!!

@AuroraDAmicoMusic 7 лет назад

Loved taking his "Writing Hit Songs" course, on Berklee Online! It really empowered my songwriting

@heroblok6 6 лет назад

Aurora D'Amico are you a robot?

@JokeJoshua 7 лет назад

guys just study similar written songs and do your daily ritual which is object writing add things like metaphors, antomyms, similies etc and you should come up with a decent song. remember practice makes perfect

@rootvalue 7 лет назад

Hahaha, art is DEFINITELY a matter of following a formula, like Mad Libs. No one ever wrote a hit song straying from convention.

@rootvalue 7 лет назад

What are you talking about John? I literally copied the video description because people didn't know who Neil Diercks was.

@rootvalue 7 лет назад

I was being sarcastic. Forgive me, it's difficult to relay over the Internet. Please interpret, instead, my comment as: "Hahaha, art is definitely not a matter of following a formula, like Mad Libs. Almost all hit songs were written straying from convention."

@globalmalfunction 6 лет назад

John Cavanaugh Lol Kanye west

@paulawilliamson637 6 лет назад

Going back to the rudiments of songwriting is probably way below the people that have commented here, but going back to see if there is anything left to learn, can complete our foundational tool kit, allowing us to easily glean lyrics, instrumentation & inspiration from a rich complication of ideas .......

@shroombaker 7 лет назад

Interesting technique on co-writing. Too bad the class was not understanding the concepts.

@rickychase7814 7 лет назад

LOVE THE BACK DROP

@carlosuter3341 Год назад

When we are writing songs we are writing emotions 5:45. We make them feel what we are feeling, we manipulate their feelings. What creates emotions: motion, harmony, delivery, lyrics, chords, contrast, melody, strong intention/mission/message, you go first to the heart before it goes to the brain. Highs and lows. The 2 most important lines are the first line and the first line of the chorus to cause Immediate impact. The first chord and note. Each transition in the song needs impact. There is a million way to write a song but the destination is the same. Some start with lyrics or chords, beats or riffs. The groove is the most basic thing of a song, vibrates your body, start down, lowarchy. Start with rhythm gives an automatic feeling. Select tempo. 14:00 36:00 song Sweet Carolina rhythm is a hook. 46:00 simplify your hook and melody. Taylor Smith out of the woods" is on 1 note. Clarity trumps cleverness. Comment section: great hooks without rhyming: Billie by Phil Collins. Steeley Dan Hey nineteen. 1:05:00 Katie perry roar: compete lyrics, complete vowels and drops in the title. Label songs where the hooks are. A song is a list of patterns. Hit song deconstruction. Same melody repetition in a song.

@barryzito5721 4 года назад

The tip at the end made it worth the whole video

@olgalanaki 7 лет назад

That's cool!

@antonellacarmelino8497 7 месяцев назад

More videos like this please 🙌🏻 thanks ❤

@MrMikomi 7 лет назад

It's amazing, but also gratifying, that so many people still dream the dream of being a successful songwriter, despite the fact that there is so little money in the business these days.

@arthurmurfitt7698 2 года назад

Thank you for posting this 😊

@crouchedw 6 лет назад

Get on with it!!!!!!

@beatrixwickson8477 7 лет назад

"I have to condense a 12 week course into 55 minutes" procedes to pad five minutes of content into 68 minutes.

@keshawnverna1928 6 лет назад

Over the rainbow

@dudeman5303 6 лет назад

Lol i just started the video. After reading this I have a feeling I'm not going to finish it

@defman9414 6 лет назад

True. Clearly he is a creative whose brain drifts like butterflies that never seem to land. I can relate.

@ed7string 6 лет назад

to be fair he is teaching to a large group of people, unlike a youtube video where people can rewind or pause whenever they'd like to

@ThoughtWave64 6 лет назад

Def Man, an accurate and prosaic assessment.

@ianparker5007 Год назад

This was so great. Felt like I was in the class!

@Dizzeeyout 7 лет назад

Thanks for sharing.

@synergydaartist 2 года назад

Good job everyone and Professor Berklee 😎

@quentinbohannon6611 5 лет назад

This session as help me so its working

@TaraSwicickiTarasTunes 6 лет назад

Thank you so much. Great information I can apply this to my songs. :) Which is good because Im a bit stuck lol. Subbed :)

@louisruffin6808 Год назад

Have A BLESSED DAY.

@ascendantindigo271 3 года назад

Billie by Phil Collins is one of the coolest hooks I've ever heard that doesn't actually rhyme...Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen another classic example of great chorus structure...

@ConstantThrowing 6 лет назад

This guy seems like a cool dude.

@MrWaterboi74 2 года назад

The best professor ever.... makes you wanna work hard because he really cares about you and your career as a musician...

@neilwalsh3977 3 года назад

Actually excellent stuff - it's easy to overlook the simplicity, in a way, of composition

@sheilahopper3058 6 лет назад

I can't believe he said they were all musicians in the class... They had a very hard time clapping hands

@gavinbarragan2419 3 года назад

Not musicians, songwriters 😂

@robertzanetti6351 3 года назад

Not their primary instrument

@mykilallen7145 4 года назад

Chorus has just always been the catchy part or the most remembered

@jessiehermit9503 2 года назад

The chorus is about more than just being catchy, in my opinion. That's where the meaning of your song usually lays, (in my opinion), and is also the most emotionally poignant.

@dougthemoleman 3 года назад

"You should go and love yourself" is the most polite curse I've ever heard. So thank you for that. I have a hard time stomaching Bieber, but that one was cool.

@dayneblack_ 3 года назад

ed sheeran and benny blanco actually wrote that bar

@irandis 2 года назад

the original line was "you should go and f yourself" but Sheeran and Blanco made it a lil bit easier to digest commercially speaking. lol

@AlleXionX 8 месяцев назад

The people who complain about this workshop prob write terrible songs!!!! Bring y’all negativity somewhere else, smh. He is dropping a lot of gems in this vid.

@TheShrubbist 2 года назад

This guy is great! It's like Bobcat Goldthwait and Jack Johnson got fused together in a science experiment and came up with our host for this lesson.

@SwiftDreamer 7 лет назад

I felt the melody was something similar to jeopardy as far as that feeling of passing time. but it's something to do when youre bored to past time instead of feeling like you're being timed.

@hmph9369 5 лет назад

I had that whole ba ba bababa thing stuck in my head for hours

@mariadam9157 11 месяцев назад

- great!

@surfrider71 3 года назад

great vid!

@WowDragonsJD 7 лет назад

His voice doesn't change no matter where he is in relation to the microphone

@yungdadbod 6 лет назад

He’s got a mic on his shirt

@judahgamermedia 3 года назад

I’ve been writing hooks for a few weeks now and this class is freaking awesome. Started writing because I’ve been making beats sense I was 12 and I always knew I could do it just was holding myself back for a while. When I write I don’t have any beat just a melody in my head with words and a concept. This is gonna help me more then just a beat maker but a composer and song writer! Who know I may even become an artist myself

@judahgamermedia 3 года назад

Oh and I’m 36 now. Don’t hold yourself back from your dreams! Go for it! The journey is worth everything

@ledaswan5990 7 месяцев назад

U can do it

@TheBetty8steeles 7 лет назад

also collaborating is good when the other person is a creative person, just in general, and not all number crunchy , and scared of not breaking rules and all stiff ha ha , you know when you work with someone like that because you feel like you are at school again ha ha

@AgileDumpling 6 лет назад

i've been there, i've felt this bitterness...

@TheM4rster 6 лет назад

"breaking rules" most people doing a "collab" don't even know any musical "rules" and probably didn't even "break" any while being "creative"

@sonibraun4971 5 лет назад

yeah, that is why Beatles got so famous. They didn't know what cadences are and so on. None of them actually could read sheet music, let alone utilizing a (complex) music theory haha. Even today Paul McCartney admits though reluctantly he cannot read any sheet music (in a video on youtube). People might get just restricted by music theory. It should be the other way around. The ideas, artistic freedom comes first, music theory is solely a tool deriving from trying to organize, to systemize certain occurrencies in music.

@Emondotcalm 7 лет назад

He's asking them questions but (for the most part) only he can hear what the audience is saying. I'm finding that a bit irritating.... You'd think they would have thought of that when they made this...

@GaveMeGrace1 3 года назад

Thank you

@yeniarivarola 7 лет назад

gracias

@musiclover1236 3 года назад

Very interesting 😇😍

@gabrielladim9440 3 года назад

Man I can't sleep, I always hear baa baaa bararabap. But thanks I learned alot

@dianaordaz9104 6 лет назад

REST IS THE RHYTHM CONTINUING TO CREATE/MAINTAIN THE EFFICIENCY SINCE since the GOAL is to CREATE & RELEASE TENSION as long as there'sa PATTERN🎵. Thats how I see it. I was waiting for SOMEBODY to say it while yelling at my phone anxiously😂

@perdapro 7 лет назад

Some great info, but could easily be 10 or 15 min long.

@luvpants2012 3 года назад

A hook is magic

@beermilkshake 5 лет назад

Stand still dude!

@annakat03 7 лет назад

Would've been nice to be in that class

@AbneRaben 4 года назад

this would be great in a 360 cam, so I can see the clappers

@beautybysilde4045 Год назад

Emotions

@maocharlisme 7 лет назад

Stop letting the class do the work for you! Argghhh it's driving me crazy!!!

@BillyReedMusic 5 лет назад

1:07:17 Interesting exercise. Thanks for sharing this lesson!

@GTORT 4 года назад

Honestly? This could be the whole video 😂😂

@denomdemon 3 года назад

That's some real good clapping and bup bupping.

@Fish-bq5ge 7 лет назад

It was cool until the awkward clapping. lol no one could stay on the beat

@465marko 7 лет назад

must have been a lot of drummers in the audience

@CarlosMedina-zq4lz 7 лет назад

Lol

@robertestrella141 7 лет назад

cool

@JohnProph 7 лет назад

hooks? Def Leppard "Pyromania" album

@ginob615 7 лет назад

This entire video was truly valuable, however one thing that I found very valuable that was incredible easy to miss because he ran out of time, was color coding melodic patterns @1:05:45

@ediepetrachi1745 5 лет назад

take his courses at Berklee Online...: :)

@nabilbhaai 2 года назад

Damn, dude was really high!

@DNixon845 7 лет назад

8 minute clap a long....no.

@danielscottburke 3 года назад

Thank you 🖤

@sincerecartertm 4 года назад

from the groove (becasue i like you guys ; drea too! ) it is and starts up/with the personail;ty ... the groove is a gREATt onominipea^ MYOWN`BYEOH`FORAWHILE! CYCLONE POLYMER!