How To Always Make Time for Songwriting

How To Always Make Time for Songwriting - 3 Simple Systems

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9 ай бұрын

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In this video, I address a really common problem I hear from songwriters: Not having enough time to actually write or finish songs! I give 3 systems (and practical exercises within those systems) for making songwriting a regular part of your life.
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ABOUT KEPPIE
Hi I'm Keppie! I'm a professional songwriter, and songwriting teacher. I've been teaching song and lyric writing for over 10 years now for some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world- Berklee Online, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Open Academy, as well as for the Australian College of the Arts. At other times, I've taught for the Australian Institute of Music, as well as the LA School of Songwriting.
My goal is to help people write better songs! My experience in the classroom, with thousands of students at this point (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful, deliberate practice. My intention is to share the skills, knowledge, information, and ideas that I've gathered with anyone who wants to improve their songwriting.
Keppie's music is here:
www.keppiecouttsmusic.com/music

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@johnnyhall6245 9 ай бұрын

This is so genius! I've written 3 songs since I started watching your videos. You do such a great job bringing concepts to practical action. Thank you so much for your content!

@CMvidproductions 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this. You have a true gift in speaking and a really compassionate and understanding voice. Just want to take a sec to affirm your efforts with these videos- in addition to great songwriting tips here, I found this video so calming and I’m gonna get off my phone and hit the home studio for some music time. Thanks for the inspiration. Take care!

@wildflute 9 ай бұрын

The best bit of reassurance I got from one of my flute teachers was ‘everything you do is practicing’ - the point being that you going about your life being a human is part of the experience you bring to your art. So even when you’re exercising for health or making a meal or tucking your children in, all of that is part of being a song writer/flutist/rapper/painter/whatever your art form. I found that tremendously helpful in alleviating the stress from thoughts like “I haven’t practiced’ or ‘I didn’t work on my lyrics’ I think it also asked you to be mindful and creative in everything you do so that you are feeding the creative mind.

@michaelduke2026 9 ай бұрын

This is a lovely sentiment. Thanks for sharing.

@YourFavouriteColor 9 ай бұрын

great video. Also, that's the coolest sweater I've ever seen!

@Nik.No.K 9 ай бұрын

1:45 this exactly. When I have a good idea I become completely obsessed with it and my brain just plays the song over and over again for a couple weeks until the song is finished. I’m releasing an album soon where I wrote most of the songs while working the line, making pizzas at little Caesar’s. The idea of not having time to write songs is totally strange to me. I’ve written maybe most of my best stuff while out living life, having no specific intention to write. This is just me but the idea of sitting down to intentionally try to write a song is totally backwards, again just for me. One of my more recent songs came to me in a dream and it was mostly fleshed out when I woke up. This is not to say that practice and putting time and effort into the craft isn’t important. If I wasn’t practicing and doing the work I wouldn’t have written half of what I have. It’s just that the more time you put in, the better chance you have of getting inspiration but I never intentionally try to write something new. I just live my life, practice my instruments and ideas inevitably come. Just my perspective 🤷‍♂️

@marcemelgar 9 ай бұрын

Excellent video, as usual! Thanks Keppie 🙌

@edwinbrown9951 9 ай бұрын

Another fantastic video, Keppie. Thank you.

@michelle-psl4441 8 ай бұрын

Another great video that outlines simple doable steps that make songwriting a regular and integral part of everyday activities. Thanks, Keppie!

@annafontes5307 3 ай бұрын

Great vídeo. Thank you so much.

@suzannebracker4049 9 ай бұрын

I think you are fabulous and captivating! Totally relatable ,encouraging and reinforcing. I am so glad I discovered your videos.Thank you so much for sharing your expertise.

@Rango_Jnr 6 ай бұрын

Love this

@QuincyKane 9 ай бұрын

These are some great tips; thanks for sharing!

@patriciacollins5716 9 ай бұрын

Great ideas Keppie. my note books with ideas are on paper , and not organized , I find myself searching through page after page of my notes over years looking for related ideas/ lines. I like the idea of placing words, phrases, chord progressions in there own place. Excellent! When it comes to Song writing group. I find a prompt helpful to get me started and I have found that out of say 4 songs written within this group, there is possibly 2 songs I like enough to put more work into.

@SmokeNeckRecords 9 ай бұрын

I'm loving your videos! I'm a new subscriber, hoping to learn how to write a song. Thank you for taking time to prepare and teach. God bless.

@stephanmayer6600 9 ай бұрын

I totally love this no nonsense approach to your videos. I have to view them twice or even more often to get the full content. It's just incredibly helpful in so many ways. So this is just a heartfelt thank you. And maybe you want to talk more about your songwriting group experience or even about your own group. I am so sorry that Berlin isn't such a good place for songwriters but maybe there are online options to connects with like-minded people around the globe...?

@mrswagg22music 9 ай бұрын

Grt ideas!! Thks!

@GillianRice 9 ай бұрын

The emails you send actually help me get into the habit more. I think i'm going to join the patreon

@cevinius 9 ай бұрын

This video was so helpful!!

@ShreddyEddy 8 ай бұрын

Picked up some of the songwriting practices from your video, I like the ideas and will try them soon. I wanted to make a similar video to this about carving time into a new artists day in our busy schedules knowing my friends having this issues to practice instruments or make music. Thank you!

@vivekanandaroy8682 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic… Disciplining… 🙏Gratitude…

@phatato 9 ай бұрын

Metaphor collisions is a great exercise thank you

@johnsalisbury3768 9 ай бұрын

You are an inspiration:)

@ChowdMusic 9 ай бұрын

I did it, I joined the Oct songwriting group. Anyone else coming?

@GillianRice 9 ай бұрын

I'm hesitant. I wonder how many people will be on the course?

@KirbySings 7 ай бұрын

Just found your channel. really love your approach. I've been writing for like 25 years and never really focused tacfully on it. I'd LOVE to see something, or maybe you have it already, on How To Come Up with a Song Idea. I can do melody, and chord structure, but I'm never sure how to Kick start WHAT to write about and then get a theme to write to or like a thesis to write to from that.

@patrickmilano7262 9 ай бұрын

You and this channrl are the bees knees. The cats pajamas. Amazing teaching!

@mrswagg22music 9 ай бұрын

Tik tok does help me when I hear beats and I do duets gets my creative juices flowing and I post then

@mrswagg22music 9 ай бұрын

I've gotten away from it yes a few mins a day .. my vocal songwriting coach says don't stop observing.. dealing with health issues it's held me back

@nedim_guitar 9 ай бұрын

My problem is that I don't have time do develop my ideas. I have a lot of ideas, but developing the chorus from the verse, coming up with a bridge, just whole song structure, that takes time. To me, song ideas are practically dime a dozen.

@richiejackson9321 9 ай бұрын

If you focused the 30 minutes to developing existing musical ideas, you’d be flying.

@nedim_guitar 9 ай бұрын

@@richiejackson9321 I will have to make time... You know when you have a full time job and a family and chores, and your free time each day starts after 9 o'clock, but usually even later? 😆

@lucasgonzalez8225 9 ай бұрын

Post-it notes by the kettle. What rhymes with "kettle"?

@ParadNorthProd 9 ай бұрын

I never wrote more than when I joined a class and had to write a song EVERY week. So much stuff. Some is crap. Some have good stuff.

@SirBless 8 ай бұрын

You read ‘Atomic Habits’ right? 😂😂😂 Me too

@marktaylor1811 8 ай бұрын

Smile

@gadgetsgetthat 9 ай бұрын

I have always watched you're videos but the biggest problem I have got is writing with out an instrument

@RockOn78 5 ай бұрын

You don’t know how to play one, or don’t own one? If the 1st, You could learn an instrument 😊. Most students can play songs in the key of G on guitar by 4mo. You could surprise yourself…

@Rango_Jnr 6 ай бұрын

Do you have any, song writing group ,that I can join 😢

@htws 6 ай бұрын

howtowritesongs.org/songwriting-group-info-and-registration/

@cherylbeaudoin32 9 ай бұрын

How to work your feelings by a song to your best friend making you feel bad

@musicstudent402 9 ай бұрын

I dont know if lennon & maca could live with 30 mins songwriting, but I will try, it's a start, you showed us your phone 'dont be so humble, you are not that great' ;)... yeah, don't take others music is rule number 1 for successful songwriting, Lennon & macartney did'nt start going to a song wirting class, they started a group, if you get an idea at a ramdom time,,, drop life and finish the song there and then, tell your boss 'it's important'.. SPACE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, MAKE SPACE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, & dont fear humiliation.