Master the Metaphor With This 5-minute Songwriting Exercise!

This short songwriting exercise can fit any songwriting routine! Watch to learn how YOU can build your metaphor muscles in only 5 minutes a day.

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Metaphors are an incredibly powerful songwriting tool. Mastering these can enable you to take the most common, mundane things we’ve heard over and over, and say them in a way that has never been said before. In this video, we will discuss the importance of metaphors, explore some examples you’ve definitely heard before, and will introduce you to a simple but powerful songwriting exercise. We will even go through exercise together!

Credit for this exercise goes to Andrea Stolpe in her article, “20 Tips to Write 20 Songs in 20 Days”: https://online.berklee.edu/takenote/2...

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 What are metaphors?
1:35 Metaphor examples from famous artists
2:26 Steps of the Creative Collisions songwriting exercise
4:16 Doing the exercise together
6:25 What to do with your metaphors next
7:35 A call to action

Happy Songcrafting!!

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