How To Write Songs - The Best Songwriting Advice We've Ever Heard!

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FEATURED ARTISTS

Craig Morrison
John Mayer
Pharrell Williams
John Legend
John Cleese
Joni Mitchell
Pat Pattison
Cole Porter

00:00 Intro
00:55 - The Ego and The Ocean
03:54 - No Judgement
08:43 - Think Like a Poker Player
13:52 - Songwriting Royalty
15:33 - Wait 90 Minutes
20:34 - Stop Complaining
26:35 - Find the Title

ABOUT KEPPIE

I'm Keppie. I'm a professional songwriter, and songwriting teacher. I've been teaching song and lyric writing for over 10 years now for some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world—Berklee Online, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Open Academy, as well as for the Australian College of the Arts. At other times, I've taught for the Australian Institute of Music, as well as the LA School of Songwriting.

My goal is to help people write better songs! My experience in the classroom, with thousands of students at this point (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful, deliberate practice. My intention is to share the skills, knowledge, information, and ideas that I've gathered with anyone who wants to improve their songwriting.

Keppie's music is here:
https://www.keppiecouttsmusic.com/music

ABOUT BEN

Ben's passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. He is a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia's best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas.

Ben is also the Founder and Head Producer of SILAMOR STUDIOS, a boutique studio specialising in Composition for Film, TV and Interactive Media. He writes extensively across various instrumental and lyric-based genres and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible. He also currently releases original songs under the name SILAMOR.

Ben is passionate about education and has taught song and lyric writing as well as film composition for JMC Academy and the Australian Institute of Music. He also designs and regularly facilitates workshops on creative process and innovation.

Links to Ben's music are here:

The Green Mohair Suits
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7M3Zf...

SILAMOR
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5HOpa...
http://www.silamor.com/music

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Keppie talks about songwriting and creative practice here:
https://howtowritesongs.org

We can be buddies on socials here:
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Keppie's music is here:
https://www.keppiecouttsmusic.com/music

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