{"id":14545,"date":"2023-08-20T00:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/20\/master-the-metaphor-with-this-5-minute-songwriting-exercise\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:32:27","slug":"master-the-metaphor-with-this-5-minute-songwriting-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/20\/master-the-metaphor-with-this-5-minute-songwriting-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Master the Metaphor With This 5-minute Songwriting Exercise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Master the Metaphor With This 5-minute Songwriting Exercise!\"   width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhUH1M-8CWA?cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more songwriting tips and techniques! <\/p>\n<p>Metaphors are an incredibly powerful songwriting tool. Mastering these can enable you to take the most common, mundane things we\u2019ve 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\u2019ve definitely heard before, and will introduce you to a simple but powerful songwriting exercise. We will even go through exercise together!<\/p>\n<p>Credit for this exercise goes to Andrea Stolpe in her article, \u201c20 Tips to Write 20 Songs in 20 Days\u201d: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/20-tips-to-write-20-songs-in-20-days-part-one\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/20-tips-to-write-20-songs-in-20-days-part-one\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timestamps:<br \/>\n0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:55 What are metaphors?<br \/>\n1:35 Metaphor examples from famous artists<br \/>\n2:26 Steps of the Creative Collisions songwriting exercise<br \/>\n4:16 Doing the exercise together<br \/>\n6:25 What to do with your metaphors next<br \/>\n7:35 A call to action<\/p>\n<p>Happy Songcrafting!!<\/p>\n<p>#songwriting #songwriters #songwritingexercise<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fhUH1M-8CWA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12408,12409,2827,811,111,1547,349,112],"class_list":["post-14545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-5minute","tag-exercise","tag-master","tag-metaphor","tag-songwriting","tag-songwriting-for-beginners","tag-songwriting-techniques","tag-songwriting-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}