What Assonance and Consonance Use Really Means in Modern Writing If you’re searching for assonance and consonance use, you already know the textbook definitions. Here’s the practitioner’s answer: a…
The 30-Day Multisyllabic Rhyme Practice Workbook: Your Solo Plan If you want to know how to practice multisyllabic words without a coach, the shortest answer is: isolate stress, then match…
What Avoiding Clichés in Lyrics Actually Means for Songwriters Avoiding clichés in lyrics is the deliberate practice of replacing frozen, overused expressions with language that forces the listener…
What Is the Internal Rhyme Technique? The internal rhyme technique is the deliberate placement of rhyming sounds within a single line of verse or between the middle of one line…
What Is a Bridge Section? Disambiguating the Term If you searched for “job of the bridge section,” you likely hit a wall of articles about bridge engineers or fracture-critical inspections.…
The Fastest Answer to Writing a Strong Pre-Chorus Writing a strong pre chorus means using the rule of 3 and the 80/20 rule to build tension that makes the chorus…
Repetition is absolutely a musical device—in fact, it is the structural glue of nearly every recorded song. When we examine repetition as song device, we mean the intentional reuse of…
What Point of View in a Song Actually Means (And Why It’s Your Silent Co-Writer) Point of view in songwriting is the grammatical lens your lyric uses to tell the…
Concrete Imagery in Songwriting: What It Is and Why It Hits If you’ve ever wondered why some lyrics stick like burrs and others slide off like rain on glass, the…
When I walked into my first professional songwriting session in East Nashville in 2014, my co-writer handed me a verse that read, ‘I am lonely when you go.’ I circled…