The songwriting process, initially, is a difficult one. Here you are, bursting with ideas. Countless riffs being made, you end up jamming on a single riff for hours... Then you have had enough and you want to create a song... now what.

 This lesson aims to address the "now what" factor, and only on the rhythm side of the spectrum. To me, chords carry both harmony and melody. Even powerchords, if played in a "lyrical" way as such, can pull a melody out of thin air. It all depends on how you play. Don't be discouraged though, the lead section (coming soon!) will address the second guitar role of additional melodies and harmonies.

The simplest method of introducing your riffs into a song form, is to seperate the individual sections. By focusing on said individual section, you get to make it as perfect as you want to make it. Let's take a look at the certain sections inside a song:

• intro
• verse
• pre-chorus
• chorus
• bridge
• outro

 Now throughout history and genres, you have quite a lot of possible formulas to use. Excluding intro's and outro's, we can look at these popular formulas:

Song 1: verse - chorus - verse - chorus - bridge - chorus

Song 2: verse - pre-chorus - chorus - verse - prechorus - chorus - bridge - pre-chorus - chorus

These are the most common in pop and pop/rock songs. When you take a careful listen to your favourite music... various songs will have this formula. It doesn't matter which genre of contemporary music it is; it could be metal, rock, pop and even country. So in order to learn songwriting, we start at the basics of song construction. The seperation of the song into its various elements. And to do that, I supply you now with drum tracks in which to compose over.

The tempo for all the tracks is at 120bpm in an 8 bar format: download here

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