Lyric Tools

 
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Creative GPS

A tool used to identify four key aspects of a song:

  1. Our intention to write it

  2. The emotions we want to express

  3. The song category it easily fits into

  4. The specific craft tools used to create it

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 Lyrical Grammar

An umbrella term for six specific lyric writing tools:

  1. Shrink Wrapping

  2. Summing up

  3. Deleting “empty calorie words”

  4. Calculating “distance to target”

  5. Using clarifying statements

  6. Lyrical Logic