Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics
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Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics at Coursera Overview
Duration | 17 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level There is no prior experience or knowledge required to enroll in this course.
- Approx. 17 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics at Coursera Course details
- There?s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it?s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple ?yes? and you?ll be climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view.
- If you haven?t written any or many songs, this course will show you an efficient, effective process for tailoring songs to express your ideas and emotions. If you have, you?ll look at your process differently, taking control of aspects of the process you may have not noticed.
- The course will start by examining the tools available to you, all revolving around the essential concept of prosody. You?ll learn to use your tools to enhance your message?to work compositionally at the same time you?re developing your ideas.
- You?ll be working both lyrically and musically, though musically it?s not necessary that you either read music or play an instrument. If you play, great, and you?ll be encouraged to play and record your musical responses to the assignments. If you don?t play, the course offers you a number of musical loops to work with. All you?ll have to do is sing your melodies over the loops.
- Assignments will ask you to post something for peer review?sometimes lyric lines or sections, sometimes melodies, sometimes both. None of it has to be polished. The course is about writing, not performing.
- Most important, you?ll have a lot of fun.
- This course is part of multiple programs
- This course can be applied to multiple Specializations or Professional Certificates programs. Completing this course will count towards your learning in any of the following programs:
- Songwriting: Writing, Arranging, and Producing Music Specialization
- The Singer Songwriter Specialization
- The DIY Musician Specialization
Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics
A Note From Pat
A Note From Your Course Assistant
Connect with Your Classmates
Course Resources
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What Are Your Goals?
The Journey of the Song
Point of View
Boxes: Your Development Engine
Six Best Friends
Song Form
Lesson 1 Suggested Reading
Lesson 1 Song List
Developing an Idea from the Title
"Fool's Gold" Development Example
Join Your Study Group
Point of View and The Development Engine
Reflection: Developing an Idea from the Title
Stopping and Going
Prosody
Practice: Stable or Unstable?
Five Compositional Elements
Effects of Number of Lines
Length of Lines
Effects of Length of Lines
Lesson 2 Suggested Reading
Lesson 2 Song List
Join Your Study Group
Stopping and Going
Sonic GPS?Mapping Your Song with Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme, Part 1
Rhyme Scheme, Part 2
Perfect Rhyme
Family Rhyme
Finding Family Rhymes
Additive and Subtractive Rhyme
Assonance Rhyme
Consonance Rhyme
Using Rhyme to Generate Ideas
Organizing Your Ideas by Developing Rhyme Schemes, Part 1
Organizing Your Ideas by Developing Rhyme Schemes, Part 2
Stable and Unstable Tones, Part 1
Stable and Unstable Tones, Part 2
Lesson 3 Suggested Reading
Lesson 3 Song List
Join Your Study Group
Sonic GPS?Mapping Your Song with Rhyme
Making It Move
Multi-Syllable Words
One-Syllable Words
Stressed vs. Unstressed Syllables
Rhythm
Developing an Idea Through the Boxes
Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 1
Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 2
Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 3
Master Class: Melodic Rhythm and Lyric Rhythm, Part 4
"Pieces," Part 1
"Pieces," Part 2
"Pieces," Part 3
Lesson 4 Suggested Reading
Join Your Study Group
Join Your Study Group
Making It Move
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