Crafting Great Lyrics: A Songwriting Workshop Course

Program Overview

This songwriting workshop focuses on form, theme, and content, providing practical exercises and using hit songs as templates. Students develop their storytelling, rhyming, and specificity skills, aiming to create lyrics that entertain, tell the truth, and connect with audiences.

Program Outline

Outline:

• This course offers a supportive and inspirational writing workshop environment focusing on three interrelated aspects of songwriting: form, theme, and content.
• Each week, students perform practical exercises and write lyrics to strengthen their songwriting skills.
• Exercises are designed to focus storytelling, and to expand on rhyming while adding specificity and color to songs.
• Hit songs, by such writers as Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars provide templates for commercial lyric writing.
• Ultimately, each participant's lyrics are evaluated by the hit song formula: to entertain, to tell the truth and to connect with your audience.

Teaching:

• Instructor: Mark Winkler