Join Celisse as she continues her Gibson App songwriting lesson series and guides you through her creative processes
Lyrics can be just as important to a listener as melody, so it’s important to think about ways to achieve a message that touches the heart of your audience. It’s not easy, but courtesy of the Gibson App, Celisse is here to help.
She says, “The first thing, if I’m thinking about writing a new song, or even a hook or something, very often it’ll be inspired by something: maybe something happened in my day, maybe something really joyful or really challenging. A lot of times I’ll start with kind of a diary entry. To be honest, I’m not thinking necessarily about poetry or rhyme schemes or anything like that.”
You can catch part one of the series, “Celisse Teaches You How to Sing and Play Guitar at the Same Time,” here, and part two, “Celisse Teaches How to Make Your Music Dance—Rhythm and Color Techniques for Guitar,” here.
What is the Gibson App: Learn & Play Guitar series all about?
Join Celisse in this third installment of a playlist for beginners, where you’ll dive into transformative lessons that demystify complex musical skills. From mastering the art of singing and playing guitar simultaneously to integrating rhythm and crafting compelling lyrics, Celisse shares her secrets for turning everyday experiences into captivating music. Get ready to be inspired and motivated as you discover the joy of creating your own music.
What will I learn from Celisse?
In the video above, she relates how she often starts with a concept or experience from her day and moves directly to developing a progression or melody on an instrument. Then, as she considers the potential lyrical content, she attempts to boil the experience down to a main point, something that will spark the rest of the song.
Melodic improvisation over the progression guides her, too, as she’s already started considering lyric structures such as verses and choruses. She clarifies, “I kind of have to earn the chorus. I have to kind of earn a reason why we’re gonna continue to hear this melodic and lyric idea over and over again.” She goes on to point out that the chorus may be the most important part of a song, being the “idea itself” in comparison to the verses that set up the idea or theme of the song.
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