Quick Songwriting Tips: Inject Your Lyrics with Drama and Conflict | Tip 6/8 | Berklee Online

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Most songwriters write the parts of a song in chronological order. Berklee Online instructor Shane Adams encourages you to try abandoning this old habit! Start at the most emotional part of the narrative, and fill in the blanks later in the song. No matter where you start writing-the verse, the chorus, the bridge-the first lyrics the listener hears should be loaded with emotions, drama, or conflict. By bringing in more emotional language for the actions being taken in the song, you’re connecting more with the listeners.
About Shane Adams:
Shane Adams is a twice GRAMMY nominated music educator, and award-winning producer, and songwriter. Shane is president of Artist Accelerator and is a founding instructor for Berklee Online, where he has taught lyric writing and songwriting since 2003. He teaches several courses at Berklee Online, including Music Production, Songwriting, Orchestration, Music Theory, Harmony, Ear Training, and Arranging.
Shane is also a featured songwriter and instructor for the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum where he received their TOP TEN HITMAKER award for 2014.
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[@kevinkoontzband]

Great tip, thank you

[@TheHarmonicaBarge]

love this video! super useful- I'd also like to hear examples of songs that start like this?

[@rebelradio71]

Bob Dylan’s ‘Hurricane’ comes to mind.
Pistol shots rang out in the barroom night
Enter Party Valentine from the upper hall
She sees a bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out my God, they killed them all...

[@OldTomato44]

Great tip, thank you

[@caelinmoore8558]

Great tip, thank you

[@kevinkoontzband]

Great tip, thank you

[@artistaccelerator]

Thanks Kevin! Good luck with your music!
Cheers,
~Shane