Beginner Writing 7 hours 320 XP on completion

Lyric Writing & the Rhyme Pad

Words that scan, land and mean something.

A full course on writing lyrics, built around the Songwriting Workbench - a lyric pad with a rhyme dictionary, live syllable counts and automatic rhyme-scheme detection, saved to your account.

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1. Finding something to say

6 lessons

Before craft, content.

○ Specific beats universal Reading 13 min ○ Writing from an image, not a feeling Reading 12 min ○ Point of view: I, you, they Reading 12 min ○ The title as the thesis Reading 12 min ○ Honest versus confessional Reading 11 min ○ Beating the blank page: prompts and constraints Reading 12 min

2. Using the Workbench

7 lessons

The tool, and how to work in it.

○ Opening a draft and saving to your account Reading 9 min ○ Live syllable counts in the margin Reading 10 min ○ Reading the rhyme scheme letters Reading 11 min ○ The rhyme dictionary: four kinds of rhyme Reading 14 min ○ Keeping a word list for a song Reading 10 min ○ Double-click lookup while writing Reading 9 min ○ Set up your first draft Studio 20 min

3. Rhyme and meter

7 lessons

The machinery underneath.

○ Perfect rhyme, and why it can sound cheap Reading 12 min ○ Slant rhyme and assonance in modern writing Reading 14 min ○ Internal rhyme Reading 12 min ○ Multisyllabic rhyme Reading 13 min ○ Stress, scansion and why some lines refuse to sit Reading 14 min ○ Rhyme schemes and what each one does Reading 12 min ○ Rhyme and meter check Quiz 10 min

4. Structure and revision

7 lessons

Shaping a lyric into a song.

○ Verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge: what each carries Reading 14 min ○ The hook, and repetition without tedium Reading 12 min ○ Prosody: matching words to music Reading 14 min ○ Cutting: the line you love is usually the problem Reading 12 min ○ Reading it aloud, flat Reading 10 min ○ Write a complete lyric Studio 40 min ○ Lyric writing final Quiz 12 min

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