This course, Managing Your Inspiration challenges the perception that inspiration is hard to find and, that it only falls by chance like a bolt of lightening. You'll learn how to overcome the common fears and inhibitions associated with songwriting and performing. You'll develop a new skill as a miner of inspiration and, with some practice, put aside the notion of writer's block and become a prolific songwriter.

Visualization is a skill used by many successful sports and business people, to see in their mind's eye 'where the ball will land before they hit it.' But we can also utilize our ear and imagination to 'hear' the sound of a song before we start writing it. This process of hearing The End in Mind is used by the elite songwriters working today but I can teach you how to develop that skill too.

Do you lose interest in your song ideas or, have difficulty in finishing them? The most common cause for this is a lack of a defined purpose. If your song lacks purpose (a good reason to write it) and, is only fueled by feelings or emotions, you'll only write when you feel like it. This course, Writing With Purpose will help you identify purposes that inspire you to write songs both you and your target audience will love and appreciate.

A hit song has a singular theme running through it, which makes it easier for audiences to embrace and understand what the song is about. Many up and coming songwriters struggle to understand this... and thus have multiple or unfocused themes running through their songs. Let me show you how to Develop One Singular Theme per song. You'll discover a new authority in your songwriting.

Most people make the mistake of trying to write a song for everybody making the song too general or unspecific to be a hit. In this course, Focusing on Your Target, I’ll teach how to identify the core needs and desires of your target audience and, show you how to shape your songs so that the audience will embrace them as their own. When a song finds a home with one audience, word gets around and soon other audiences are discovering your song too.

Did you know that Song Style and Song Genre are two different things? And, that one style of Song can be written in many different Genres? In this course I can help you identify your own unique ‘voice’ as a songwriter. I’ll break down each Song Style for you and show how hit songwriters use them to target their audience. You’ll then have better understanding of how the labels and publishers categorize songs and, you will learn how to broaden your own scope of songwriting, to target different audiences, markets, labels, publishers and recording artists.

In Form & Structure: The Building Blocks of a Hit Song

You'll earn how to become a Song Mechanic, so that you can identify why some songs are more successful than others (and why some are not) and, how you can use all of that information and song data to increase your chances of success within your targeted audiences and markets.

I consider Tone & Context: The Missing Ingredients

to be the difference maker. It is one of the reasons why hit songwriters like Dylan, Sting, Beyoncé, Prince, Stevie Wonder and others, are so successful. Because, when they write a song, they shape the tone of the lyric, the melody and the beats to make their target audiences feel like the songs were written was just for them. Let me show you how to write songs like that too.