Creative Boot Camp 30-Day Booster Pack: Major Mix

The Songwriter

Time limit: 12 minutes

Songwriting is a difficult medium. There is much to consider, from cadence and rhyme to emotion and message. When you remove some of those limitations, though, songwriting becomes much easier. Let’s practice that today.

First, go online or open a book or magazine to a random page and find a random sentence. The sentence can be anything but it will help if you find something short. Write this sentence down and develop a cadence or beat with which to read the sentence. You’re now going to write three lines after this sentence to make a four-line verse to a song. The only restriction is that it has to be in the ...