Writing Better Lyrics with the LYRIC CANVAS | Holistic Songwriting 

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Why doesn't this have more likes? This is the winner!

Yea, I think that is a brilliant idea! It would make life so much easier! I hope he still looks at his older videos because you gave him a hit idea!

lyricpdx thanks :) I use it all the time and it really does help!

I miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home. Yeah I miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone

@@aidand.7911 you should use this one dude!

From SA too😂

@@ingridgoosen3372 same!

Great! Will definitely keep that in mind :) So far, feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, so I will keep doing this :) Thanks, Jeff!

Agree fully with sticking to an idea! Thanks :)

I would say to maybe explore more similes and metaphors by looking at poetry :,)

Mee too

Yeah, I am like that as well. So mix it up with imagery language. Let’s say I want to write about a breakup. So everything i’ve written is pretty literal: I loved you, I gave you every ounce of me, you ghosted me, you broke my heart, what an ass. Imagine it in nice poetic language. So that’s ok but very literal. Now we have to add the “scenery of the lines/of the song”. Scenery is always visual or sensorial. So like: wind whipping my hair, no helmet on, if I crank the throttle any higher I’ll spin straight out of the road. All of a sudden our broken love is now “like” an out of control motorcycle; a situation for each person to imagine (which gives gig much fodder for non-direct lyrics). So for every direct lyrical part write also a sensorial situational moment. Just like I did in a few quick non-worked lines. And then when you find the visuals/sensory ideas you like work on the actual words and rhyme structure. It’s good if you have experienced the image you are trying to evoque. Maybe the love is not an exiting one, maybe they break up with you in the corner of Lafayette by the Corner Bistrot. So your imagery has to come from that scene. The pavement, the tourists, the rain or the honk of the cab 🚕 that wakes you up from seeing your ex love on the other side of the street. It’s not him, it never is. So that imagery now gives us a completely different flavor of the same situation. And it’s related through visual and sensorial language and situations rather than the exact literal feelings and thoughts. Then finally from all you have (direct and sensorial) choose the best and you’ll have a mixture of direct and imaginative that will be really nice 🍀

@@Alpha-Andromeda thanks

@@Alpha-Andromeda well that was awesome... 😦🤯

Hope it does :) Good luck!

Thanks :) Glad the Lyric Canvas is getting some love!

Hey Tom, thanks so much, made my day :) Already working on the next episode!

Glad it helped - the nice comments on the last video helped :)

Thanks Pat!

Pat Meruseye

Shhh! That's my secret super hero name.

Holistic Songwriting huh, and here I always believed it was “lé artist”

Thanks Pierre :)

Danke dir Vincent!

Cool :) Good to hear!

Hey Kali, you can check out my music by googling "41 styles in under 7 minutes" - that takes you straight to my demo reel :)

Hey Thiago! Thanks for the nice comment. :) I'm sure we could work something out for a translation, thanks for asking and not just stealing the video! I really appreciate that. Wanna PM me what you were thinking about exactly?

I haven´t thought of anything specifically now, but nothing related to the video but the canvas itself, to translate it to Portuguese and explain your concept...you could provide a link from your blog...so everyone could access your content as well...suggestion

Sure! As long as you point to the download page (blog.holistic-songwriting.com/download-lyric-canvas) and mention Holistic Songwriting along the way do as you please :) Could you send me a link to the finished video to greenlight it? I'm sure it will be fine, I just want to make sure you're not strangling cats while you're explaining the canvas :)

Hey Kelsey, as long as you use our download page (blog.holistic-songwriting.com/download-lyric-canvas/), absolutely :) And thanks for sharing!

great thanks! Tried it out today and it was super helpful!

Cool :) Glad to hear it!

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Neither did i

@@avibar-gad3205 late on answering but it's possible it went to a spam folder. I always check there first when I didn't get something I was supposed to.

Grandmouse Flausch sogar!! Gern, danke :)

:-D Man muss sich ja weiterbilden, und deshalb geh ich jetzt zu einer Selbsthilfegruppe für Songwriter. Der Leiter ist ein Hund, er heisst Bello Canto

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