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SongBootcamp S1E1
A Few Disclaimers
1. Prepare for Beast Mode.
2. No Rules. Just Write.
A FEW DISCLAIMERS
3. Art vs. Commerce
4. Become a Student of...
5. You're Weird
6. That'll Do Will Never Do
GREAT Songs are Built around a SINGLE BIG IDEA
BIG IDEA: A word, a phrase, or a sentence that serves as a new window into an ancient truth; a memorable and fresh way of looking at something familiar.
THE
BIG IDEA
I know they say you can't go home again.
I just had to come back one last time.
Ma'am I know you don't know me from Adam.
But these hand prints on the front steps are mine.
Up those stairs, in that little back bedroom
Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.
And I bet you didn't know, under that live oak
My favorite dog is buried in the yard.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here it's like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me.
Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.
From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.
Plans were drawn, and concrete poured,
And nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama's dream.
REPEAT CHORUS
You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can.
I got lost in this old world and forgot who I am.
REPEAT CHORUS
Allen Shamblin and Tom Douglas © Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Where do you find Big Ideas?
External Sources vs. Internal Sources
Catharsis: the relief of pent up emotions especially through the experience of art or music.
External Sources vs. Internal Sources
Generate a list of words or phrases that could be developed into a song. Don’t self-edit. Don’t over-think it. Don’t develop the idea or start rhyming things.
EXERCISES
1) Love 7) Guys
2) Loss 8) Girls
3) Anticipation 9) Social justice
4) Fantasy 10) The Struggle
5) Party 11) Thankfulness
6) Places 12) Empowerment
FOR NEXT WEEK
BIG IDEAS: Find a place and method for capturing Big Ideas and write down at least 10.
FOR NEXT WEEK
Before the start of next week's class, email a lyric and worktape of a song for critique to songbootcamp@gmail.com