In this video I’ve got another great lyric writing tip for you. I’m going to show you how you can use 6 word stories to write better lyrics. In my opinion one of the hardest parts about lyric writing is taking big ideas and condensing them down into short lines that we can use in our lyrics. This video is a clever little songwriting tip that will help you practice condensing down your ideas into lyrics.

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41 Replies to “Songwriting Tips: The Power Of 6 Word Stories // Episode 27”

  17. The Art of Song says to write a six word 'story' . . . . but it is not a "story" – it is the outline of a story. A good tool, and perhaps I'm nit-picking the semantics, I would call it a six-work outline.
    I'm going to try this technique and believe it is a good starting point, although I don't normally outline anything when I write songs, poems or prose. Maybe I should.

  22. Superb tip! I have not encountered this one before now. I can see that the six word story (SWS) is very useful for kicking ideas around and finding focus within draft lyrics but I’d be interested to see how the SWS might be expanded to a form the skeleton of a ‘typically’ structured song re: verse, chorus, bridge. The SWS is useful for a story arc but seems a challenge to translate it to the V C B format – ie we typically repeat things in the C but SWS is progressively linear – never looks back.
    Great video – thanks for sharing!

  30. Its really hard to hear you .its almost like your voice is in the background and the BG music is in the foreground. the bass in the BG music drowns out your voice that is higher pitch. bring down the the bass in the BG track. is probably a good start. If there is a compressor on the mic you may want to try to turn down the ratio and turn up the gain a hair. and lowpass filter may help the the high sound floor. Good content it was just hard to watch. It is a bit boring. I got distracted two or three three tie and rewind. Even a little more dynamic range on the vocals may help it be more interesting. keeping your voice the same tone and volume the entire video doesn't help keep the audiences attention. Hope that helps have a good one.

  33. Thank you so much for this, I am so glad I found your channel! I struggled with this a lot when I started (and still do!) but am getting better. Initially, I starting trying to wedge poems into music, which I think on reflection is writing more for the eye than the ear. Thanks again!

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