Songwriting basics and tips 5: Popular Rhyme Patterns
Shapes of things to come – or songs as super-models!!
October 2018
Interlude: A Seasonal Song
A song of ghaisties and ghoulies, an lang-leggity beasties, an things that gae bump in the nicht. Hallowe’en!
Songwriting basics and tips 4: Rhyme Part 2 – The Nature of Rhyme … and Rhymes that Don’t
How do you get near to a rhyme? Buy it flowers? The secret is revealed!
Songwriting basics and tips 3 (continued)
Music hath charms to bend the knotted oak.
Continuing from Blog 3, the song lyric has developed a tune.
Look out, songwright at work!
Songwriting basics and tips 3: Rhyme – Part 1
Not sure where to put the rhymes in your song? This will show you how to knit a nice rhyme pattern.
Songwriting basics and tips 2: Rhythm
Is your songwriting missing rhythm? How to put a beat in your ballad.
Songwriting basics and tips 1: Where do you get your ideas from?
First blog in a series on songwriting by Scottish traditional songwriter Bob Leslie
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