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We're building our first "chunk" of song - we're adding two more lines to our rhyming scheme, but this time using "near rhymes" and repeating our intro line to create a hook.

In episode 2 we build on that very first foundational block (the first line and melody) and add a rhyme and think about the chord progression we're going to use.

Songwriting: Are you stuck and don't know how to get started? Are you looking for new ideas? You've come to the right place. In this episode we talk about the very first foundational block of getting started with songwriting. That first line. How do we take any idea (and we're surrounded by them) and turn it into a song? Literally anything can be turned into a song.

This week, a tribute to Ralph Ferraiuolo, one of the people that inspired me to take up the guitar. He gave me this title. And I swear he was on me to finish when I woke up from a dead sleep at 3 am on the button - with lyrics in my head ready to come out. (Apologies for my stuffed up head).

The "not teaching you to play guitar" series continues with a walk-through of my song, "Inside My Head" from the "American Poet" album. We cover movable chords, palm muting, some "weird" chords that you may not find in the chord book.