The Songwriter Toolbox

Welcome
Part One - The Song
What to Write
People Watching
Reported Speech
When we Talk about love
Inside love
Drawing from your Own Well
Truth in Songwriting
Song Structure
The Song Title
The Introduction
The Pre-verse
The verse
The Pre-chorus
The chorus
The bridge
The Instrumental break
The end
Lovesongs from the midnight sea
Whither Will
Part Two - The lyrics
Stream of consciousness
Scrambled eggs and the Working lyric
Collaborative Songwriting
Rhyme
Perfect and Oblique Rhyme
Non-Rhyming
Combination Rhyming
The Importance of Phrasing
Poetry and Songwriting
Types of Rhyme
Consonance
Assonance
Metaphor
Simile
Types of Metaphors
Analogy
Allegory
The Iambic Pentameter
Recommended Reading
Part Three - The creative Mind
Protecting and feeding your creative Mind
Books
Music
Films
Art
Poetry
Yoga and Meditation
Walking
Taking care of your body
The Mental Diet
Television ? The Drug of the Nation
Worry
Writer?s block
The Inner critic
Affirmations
Creating the Time to Write
Maximising your creative Time
Songcraft ? choosing quality Over quantity
Avoid the Songwriting Regime
Songwriting Discipline
Part four - The Space
Your Indoor creative Room
Making your Own Writing Room
Your Outdoor creative Room
Your Inner creative Room
Part five - The Performance
Open Mics
Know your Song Well before you Start Singing
Perceived Thoughts
The No-applause blues
The Performer bubble
The quiet fan
Visualisation
Part Six- The Recording
Finding a good Studio
Band Rehearsals
Solo Recording
Ensemble Recording
Band Recording
Recording Plan
Budgeting
Surviving The Recording
Less is More
The click Track vs Natural Human Time
The Mix Down
Mastering
Duplication and the glass Master
Royalties
Australian Royalties
aPRa Royalties
aMcOS Royalties
World Royalties
Part Seven - getting your Songs Out There
Handling criticism
Promotion
Networking
Marketing
Songwriting competitions
Local Song competitions
Songwriting clubs
Songwriting competition Websites
Part eight - The voice
Training your voice
A Singer versus Someone Who Sings
Breathing
Deep breathing
The Diaphragm
Vocal Posture
The Roaring lion Posture or Simha-asana
Pitching to the guitar
The vowel Technique
Vocal Scales
Taking care of your vocal Health
Vocal Warm-ups
The Sirening and Speedboat Technique?s
Vocal Techniques to avoid
Vocal Techniques to Maintain
Part Nine - The guitar
What is a Key?
What is a chord?
Open chords
Modified Open chords
Barre chords
Modified barre chords
Book of the guitar Toolbox Series
The Major & Minor Scale chord charts
The Major Scale chord chart
The Minor Scale chord chart
Conclusion
In case of Technical Difficulties
Cal Williams Jr
The Cal Williams Jr guitar School
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