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Welcome to my FREE Online Course in Songwriting in which I'll teach you some tricks on writing songs and lyrics. This course is for beginners as well
as experienced writers, because I think anyone can learn something from anyone, and so also from me!
But who are you!?!?! I can almost hear you thinking it... Well, I'm a Dutch guitarist/songwriter and I've been playing in several
bands for about 15 years now. In that time, I started writing my own stuff almost immediately, realizing that there were too many
people already playing copy-cat! If you want to know more about me, please check out my history-page.
This course will be updated once in a month. Each month a particular subject will be discussed. You will be able to access the
courses, even the ones already history. Subjects range from how to make good rhyme and rhythm in lyrics to choosing subjects,
style, etc.
This course will NOT be about scales, chromatics and other weird stuff: other guys are better in that and besides: I think the more
you learn about that, the fewer you're free in using your imagination. I don't mean that theory and practics can't go along, but I've
managed to write songs without any theoretical knowledge and I'd like to try to teach you guys my tricks on how to do that (and
thus my imagination becomes theory!).
Each month, I'll include (parts) of my lyrics as examples, and you'll be able to hear pieces of my songs just by a click of the mouse-button!
I hope it will make it all worthwhile for you!
How it works:
It's simple: just read the pages and think about it while writing your own stuff, that's all!!! You won't get any homework at all. All
you'll need to follow the course you can find on these pages.
The general idea is that all information will be accessable for everyone one way or another.
Links will be added to this and the other pages, and for the sake of overview I made an information-page where you can find all the necessary links to follow this course and instructions on how to get soundfiles in different formats, text-files containing the lyrics etc.. You will also find another fill-out form there especially for the coursists.
The following rules apply:
Each month the course starts with a short introduction of the subject of this month, followed by a deeper explanation. In
the text, some links will enable you to hear a sample of the music which accompanies the explanation. The course will be accompanied by (part)
of the lyrics which acted as an example.
Easy, isn't it???
Important Note:
Due to space-restricions on our Internet-provider's harddisk only the soundfiles of the current lesson will be available directly by clicking on the links in the lesson. At the moment the current lesson is Lesson 6. The links in previous lessons have been changed so that you are directed to the form on the Information-Page where you can put a (free) order. After receiving your order we will send the soundfiles to you by email as soon as possible. It's very important to send us your email-address while ordering soundfiles, because otherwise there will be no way for us to send you your files!
The soundfiles of the current lesson are recorded in the au-format for better compability with the various webrowsers. All soundfiles of all lessons however are available in almost every possible format (wav, aiff, voc, snd, etc. etc.) by placing a (free) order using the form on the Information-Page.
This is all you need to know about how this course works. Remember, it's FREE and it will stay free! Just enjoy it and if you have any questions, comments, remarks or even compliments, you are free to drop a message!
Click here to go straight to the lesson of your choice:
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Please send your comments etc. to: menke@euronet.nl or
use the fill-out form for this...
Note: all music and lyrics are registrated and notarized.