HSA: Finding Your Voice
Make every word count, make any text better.
Before enrolling in this course, we strongly recommend you watch the following courses:
Buy this course standalone, or as part of Holistic Songwriting Academy.
Anyone who argues that writing lyrics is easy doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Lyrics need to be imaginative. They need to be meaningful. They need to be catchy, fresh, and vivid. You want to briefly transport your listener to another world, provoke their thoughts, express yourself and do all of that in 20 lines or less. It’s hard. But let me tell you a secret: Writing lyrics begins with becoming a good writer. If you can write a blog, a story or an email, you can write lyrics. In “Finding Your Voice” (the first of three courses on lyric writing), we’re not even looking at lyrics yet; you learn how to write better, period. Widely useful and instantly applicable, this will permanently change the way you communicate.
Your Instructor
Bestselling Author of the Addiction Formula, YouTube Sensation, Successful Board Game Designer, Card Magician, Entrepreneur, Songwriter/Producer and Cat Lover: like his work, Friedemann is an enigma, a multilayered puzzle asking to be solved.
Course Curriculum
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StartHSA Standard Only: Your Assignments
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StartLyrics Style: Introduction (2:09)
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StartLyrics Style Worksheet
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StartHow to Write a "Good" Lyric (11:53)
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StartNew: EDM Lyrics
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StartA Few Tough Questions (5:24)
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StartRevealing Character (4:24)
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StartWorkshop: Revealing Character
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StartThe Kopfkino (5:44)
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StartWorkshop: The Kopfkino
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StartFatal Abstraction (18:21)
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StartWorkshop: Fatal Abstraction
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StartWhile you're here...
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StartBars of Soap (14:49)
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StartWorkshop: Bars of Soap
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StartGet Sticky (10:17)
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StartWorkshop: Get Sticky
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StartLocation and Details (7:36)
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StartWorkshop: Location and Details
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Start2+2, Not 4 (10:33)
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StartWorkshop: 2+2, not 4.
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StartEmotional Description (3:44)
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StartWorkshop: Emotional Description
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StartLathering Lines (5:30)
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StartWorkshop: Lathering Lines
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StartUnlisting Lines (9:53)
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StartWorkshop: Unlisting Lines
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StartCinematic Grammar (14:38)
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StartWorkshop: Cinematic Grammar
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StartMetaphors, Simile & Symbolism (13:32)
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StartWorkshop: Metaphors, Simile & Symbolism
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StartThe Sponge Chorus (8:21)
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StartWorkshop: The Sponge Chorus
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StartA Summary (2:26)
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StartSleep on it (7:04)
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StartHSA Standard Only: Handing In Your Assignments