Fancy yourself as another Bernie Taupin or Sir Tim Rice? SOS Editor In Chief Sam Inglis delivers his 5-part series for budding songwriters and wordsmiths, providing useful compositional techniques and insight into the craft of lyric-writing that is hard to find elsewhere.
Understanding & Writing Lyrics: Part 1
Writing the words to songs is often thought of as a process of pure intuition, but there's a lot more to it than that. In the first part of a new series, Sam Inglis suggests an alternative way of going about it.
Understanding & Writing Lyrics: Part 2
Whenever we hear or read song lyrics, we are hearing the voice of a person, whether that voice be the songwriter's own, exploring his or her own emotions and feelings, or someone else's. The second part of Sam Inglis' series explains how you can write for different voices to put across different messages.
Understanding & Writing Lyrics: Part 3
In this month's installment, Sam Inglis looks at how you can use the sounds and rhythms of words to make your song lyrics more memorable.
Understanding & Writing Lyrics: Part 4
This month, Sam Inglis shows you how to improve your lyric writing by using fewer words to say more.
Understanding And Writing Lyrics: Part 5
Sam Inglis demostrates how you might furhter enrich your lyric writing with the use of comparisons.