How GREAT SONGWRITERS use RHYME!

[@KennethGonzalez]

I have completed your course and I feel that this is your best one yet! It's a total bargain, in my opinion. I continue to derive new value from what I learned in it. Thank you both for producing such a great program!

[@liamonconlocha4898]

I like the change around on James Taylor's song, it deflates it immediately, the aabb is exactly what you're saying, the speed bump, the conclusion if you like, that basicall turns your ideas into Twitter lines, short and not much room to work with, you put yourself into a straui jacket

[@BryanRoyes]

You articulated that section on creating a longer arc of tension SO fluently! So well said. This is information I've been searching for but didn't know I needed.

[@rachelraspberry1761]

You're voice sounds so great in this vid!

[@SteveRockstein2]

Perhaps your most useful video to date, Many thanks.

[@ADAMSIVES]

This is the best episode of Play School I’ve ever seen!

[@johnlind5819]

This is a wonderful video with great content. With so much shaft on KZbin is is sometimes a challenge to find the wheat. I know when I find it for 2 reasons. First, I always look forward to it (as I do with your videos) and second, I always have to watch the video multiple times (again, as I do with all of yours). Thanks so much, John Gig Harbor, WA

[@BillyKernkampMusic]

Another great lesson! Thank you 🙏

[@MrMikomi]

I will try it.

[@andrewtea]

I love you guys when you play together.

[@veronicacarloni-q4d]

I’m finding this very useful in developing rhythm for the children’s picture books.!

[@Scott.Alston]

Stellar. Thanks.

[@Kentucky-bz6pg]

Wow, this is a great lesson, thank you so much

[@jcskyblanc]

Loved how you put it ❤

[@den3494]

So helpful! Thank you❤

[@epiphoney]

Weird, the 2nd b and a in the James Taylor song disappear at 8:19. Could "over" rhyme with "love" in the Buckley song 11:50?

[@richardlanahan8089]

50 years listening to the great Rodney Crowell who has used and still uses many types of rhyme.

[@ZdenoMucina]

Love this :) but I wouldn't rhyme cheers and ideas :D It doesn't sound like a rhyme to me, maybe very family rhyme

[@scobrado]

Nice clip. I keep thinking she's been eating Cheetos, but I'm easily distracted.

[@liquidsolids9415]

Great stuff, as usual! See Bob Dylan for great examples of using an unrhymed last line, and then rhyming it with the last line of subsequent verses. “Just Like a Woman” is an example of this: the last words of each of the three verses are “curls”, “pearls”, and “world”. These words don’t rhyme with any other verse lines, but they rhyme with each other. Thanks for the great video!

[@question-question]

I don't know the James Taylor song and I actually preferred the ABAB version.. However, the storytelling aspect is more dramatic in the original. But I still feel the rhyming scheme essentially fails as a hook to draw someone in (as a first time listener). The storytelling aspect could possibly have been resolved within an ABAB rhyming scheme with different lyrical choices. Just my opinion.

[@briannolan]

Same. Maybe a first time listener craves more stability / meeting-of-expectation in a song structure. Whatever the reason, I preffered the abab structure a LOT.

[@question-question]

@@briannolan you could be right about the first time listener. Nice to know I'm not the only one though.

[@WhiteDove73-888]

You just taught everyone how to rap shhhh

[@alchristensen8121]

One day I was driving along, the radio playing, when, probably inspired by some terribly forced lyric, I started to wonder about rhyming. Of all the things we could do, why do we do it? Why do we like it? Then, as if the programming people were reading my mind, "Burning Down the House" started playing. Ah, almost no rhyming. See, it's not necessary. So why do we keep doing it? Why is it essentially the default? Is it just deeply embedded in our culture? Poetry moved away from rhyming long ago, so why not popular music?

[@markkilley2683]

Very useful. Thanks.

[@ElectricEddieDaus]

With your experience in writing Songs, have you ever written any Songs that are performed by any well known established Singers or Bands? Thx ElectricEddie😎

[@MrMikomi]

I think this stuff is really good. But I'm fairly certain that when people listen to songs, for 99% of listens the verse goes by so quickly that the listener really has no Idea what's being sung. We obsess over lyrics as writers but I think really in most cases it doesn't matter.

[@Funkybassuk]

My whole life has been a b a b 😢

[@MrMikomi]

😁

[@justintuccimusic]

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[@neilsaggerson1954]

There is no universe where night and time is a rhyme.

[@lordelite3343]

😂 both have the I sound, t in night is a quick click sound and M in time is a nasal sound if you put main enunciation on NIGHt all but the t they rhyme, it like a white guy and a brown girl