Learn How to Write Better Rhymes With This Quick Songwriting Exercise!

This interactive songwriting exercise helps you take your rhyme game to a new level!

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With all the tools at our disposal, coming up with rhymes as a songwriter nowadays can seem like a breeze. But, we can’t forget that rhyming in music is rarely as neat and tidy as the nursery rhymes we grew up with, so let’s make sure we use our imagination! In this video, we will go through a quick rhyming exercise together, and then we will come up with lines of lyrics to put those rhymes to use right away.

This songwriting exercise courtesy of Gary Ewer’s article “The 5 Best Daily Exercises a Songwriter Can Do”: https://bit.ly/3EFY9bv

00:11 Overview and Resources
0:54 Exploring common rhyme types
1:13 Perfect rhymes
1:50 Imperfect rhymes
2:31 Identical rhymes
2:40 Rhyme Analysis: “Let It Be”
3:40 Rhyme Analysis: “Thunder”
4:19 Exercise Setup
4:52 Step 1: 2-minute Rhyming (follow-along)
7:23 Step 2: 2-minute Song Lines (follow-along)
9:45 Exercise results
10:58 Next Steps!


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