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In this free songwriting tutorial filmed at the 2016 ASCAP EXPO, Berklee Online instructor Andrea Stolpe offers tips for ending writer’s block. Andrea summarizes the dominant songwriting tools that supersede genre, and breaks them down into lyric, melodic, and harmonic tendencies. Her 20 songwriting tools will help you unite artistry with commercial viability.
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About Andrea Stolpe:
Andrea Stolpe is a multi-platinum recorded songwriter, performing artist, and educator. She has worked as a staff writer for EMI, Almo-Irving, and Universal Music Publishing, with songs recorded by such artists as Faith Hill, Daniel Lee Martin, Julianne Hough, and others. Andrea is the author and instructor of the course Commercial Songwriting Techniques, part of Berklee Online’s online songwriting program.
Released in fall of 2007, her book “Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling” describes how to apply a unique process for uniting our artistic voice with the commercial market. Andrea graduated with a degree in songwriting from Berklee College of Music. She continues to tour and promote her solo release, “Breaking Even,” and serve as a guest clinician nationally and abroad. Andrea lives in Los Angeles with her husband, recording engineer Jan Teddy.
About the ASCAP EXPO:
The ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO is the first and only national conference dedicated to songwriting and composing. The event provides a unique opportunity for songwriters, composers, artists, producers, publishers – and those in the industry who support them – to come together in an unprecedented way to share their knowledge and expertise.
Learn more: http://www.ascap.com/expo
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I LOVE you Andrea Stolpe for taking the time to have this available online! There’s some great musicians out here who were hidden for decades for these times an we were forced to teach ourselves in solitude what we know so I’m LOVING the GEMS you share thank you ??
Long story short no one in my family was interested in music so I never got to go to school for it. So I’m super excited just to be seeing these videos. There’s a songwriter bursting to get out but I’ve never had a single lesson. My first attempt I co wrote a song that got regular rotation on Detroit’s biggest stations so here I am ready to write everyday now that I have a quality studio..so now I’m wanting to see what I missed so I can go forward with confidence
If I didn't accept mediocrity I'd never write a single thing.
this is why im applying to berklee
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So many thanks for all advices ?
Nobody is gonna read your comments… keep it simple
Mesmerizing lecture!
I feel like I need to go back and listen to some of the songs she mentioned with these tools in mind. This was so very informative and helpful.
Eat mushrooms. I've got a few bright ideas from it.
I’m a singer and a lyricist but I’ve always wanted my lyrics to have a bit more form so that they would fit in with music better I have been pretty good at fitting random words into rhythms but I bought poetry for dummies and songwriting for dummies in order to really move past My innate ability and develop it I hope that’s a good start
This is great!!
I play the guitar "like a songwriter" too! Loved hearing how much you can do with just a few chords and looking for ways to add contrast one tool at a time. Also the tip about trusting your instincts and allowing yourself to write faster without so much editing or judgement. I appreciate knowing there are hit songwriters out there that don't know a lot of music theory or even really read music at all. So much packed in this video. Thank you!
Whats the book called?
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Alanis Morrisette said in an interview, if the song doesn't arrive in about 40 minutes it's time to find another train
I found myself saying, " Oh yeah, she's right, over and over again.
This was SO…much more helpful, than my favorite songwriter telling me, " There is no method, there are no rules…I don't know how to write songs….just do it".
Writer's block is annoying. Just when I think I have an original, I realize it's a song that I haven't heard in over 20 years. It somehow stayed in my brain. It's like when you lost something but don't find it until you start spring cleaning the next year
I always find I kind of visualise ‘something’ when a song is just about to come out of me. I don’t visualise the melody or the words or even the specific subject, but just a something. And I find that enough for a song to pop out of me.
Not sure why I’m watching this. I suffer the opposite of writers block and keep ending up overwhelmed by all the new ideas that I come up with and then have to finish.
I then try NOT to write for a little bit. Then it builds up again and I have to write new songs again. I try to contain the amount of fresh ideas so I can manage to finish them all, remembering (without having to listen back to the recording) all the parts of all the new songs that have come out. Think I have it under control as I get everything finished.
I used to get criticised by a friend I jammed with for writing too fast and accepting every idea that came out.
The years have gone by and I now have 330 of my own songs and he has about 3, and doesn’t even remember how to play them (with finished final versions not settled on).
I now feel I know my own process well and recognise the creative process so have no issues with writing.
The thing I need to expand on now is my vocabulary so I don’t begin to repeat the words used in previous songs I’ve written.
Love this girl stage presence! Nov7. 341pm. From ??
Thank you! The availability of amazing first-hand stuff like this really is a blessing of our day… Still, that cool stuff just wouldn't be there without people sharing it. So thanks again!!
I try to tell people , this , she has said so much that I try to teach artist I work with but they look at me like I don't know what I'm talking about .
This 30-minute video gave me more than 10 hours of songwriting course that I've bought. Thank you very much, Andrea Stolpe.
Well I'm sitting here stumped. I'm trying to write me a song. I've got writer's block; it ain't going on. Ain't going on… Writer's Block
I've got nothing to do today and everything's fine. So why can't I just write a few lines? Write a few lines… Writer's Block
I'm trying my damnedest to invoke the muse. A little mota to motivate, nothing to lose. Nothing to lose… Writer's Block
My paper's got scribbles and doodles and crap as I sit here staring with my hands in my lap. Hands in my lap, brain full of crap, but I'll write this song
Write this song… and call it Writer's Block.
© Greg Fox 2006
This was great. Thank you! ???
Thank You!
Amazing teacher, I can visualize so clearly what I need to do to improve my songwriting
Thank you so much for this great video! Really helpful ?
"Peter Drake"
Queen Elizabeth High School
QEHS
Playwright
Musician
Teacher
Great video
Playback 1.25x
The abstract vs concrete lyrics tho ?
I was with her until she held her book like that
Andrea, thank you so very much! You are so alive in your didatics, it fells like you're transposing the knowledge to who's watching; it has given me so much detail in my compositions, as I try to sense what they need. Thank you and all the best, truly. Júlia
This is very practical advice. Top stuff.
Beautiful lesson, beautiful lady
She's a wonderful woman.
May I have a copy of that paper please.