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How to Write A Song: Creating Vocal Melodies | Songwriting | Tips & Techniques
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How to Write A Song: Creating Vocal Melodies | Songwriting | Tips & Techniques

Download Your Free Songwriting Handbook Now: https://berkonl.in/3wSocKI Earn Your Songwriting Degree Online with Berklee: https://berkonl.in/2w6KwPi In this free songwriting tutorial, Berklee professor Jimmy Kachulis teaches you tips and techniques for writing vocal melodies over a bass line when creating a song. Master songwriter Jimmy Kachulis has analyzed thousands of hits, identifying the structures and patterns that work best, and why. In his 'Writing Hit Songs' course, he'll share the techniques successful writers use to craft vivid, memorable songs and help you do the same. Whether you're a relative beginner or an experienced songwriter, you'll learn how to brainstorm ideas, overcome writer's block, and express yourself more effectively in words and music. Combining technical principles with pure creative expression, this hands-on course will help you find your voice, sharpen your craft, and create songs listeners will appreciate and remember. Enroll in Writing Hit Songs: http://bit.ly/1Fy569g For more songwriting tips and techniques watch these free tutorials: How to Write A Song: Sensory Writing Tricks http://bit.ly/1JDBT0s How to Write A Song: Use Critique to Improve Your Songs http://bit.ly/1KtuXGN Want more? Learn songwriting online with Berklee: Learn techniques for writing original songs in a variety of musical styles—techniques that have propelled Berklee alumni to write number one songs and win Grammy Awards. In this program, you will develop skills to create song structures, harmonies, melodies, and lyrics that support and enhance the ideas that you want to express. Through listening and analysis, you will be able to recognize and discuss quality elements in musical and lyrical structures. You will learn arranging techniques that support the style and structure of a song with appropriate instrumentation. You will develop your own voice as a songwriter and learn to write more effectively and efficiently, whether by yourself or in collaboration with other songwriters. Jimmy Kachulis teaches songwriting and lyric writing at Berklee, conducts clinics nationwide, and has helped thousands of songwriters develop and maximize their skills. Look through the bios of some of today's best songwriters, and his name comes up again and again; his students' works have earned Grammy nominations, and been recorded by a vast range of artists on major and independent labels. An accomplished composer, arranger and conductor, he has worked with great artists like George Coleman, Jon Hendricks, John Lewis and Martha Reeves, and his compositions have been featured on scores from The Sopranos to Touched By An Angel. Jimmy's songs and arrangements for "Island Breeze", by legendary guitarist, Eric Gale, have been re-released and distributed worldwide under the Warner Brothers label. How to Write A Song | Songwriting | Tips & Techniques | Free Tutorial
How Taylor Swift Writes Melodies | The Artists Series S1E1
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How Taylor Swift Writes Melodies | The Artists Series S1E1

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