Cal Williams Jr.: The Songwriter Toolbox

Contents

• Welcome
• Part One - The Song
• What to Write
• People Watching
• Reported Speech
• When we Talk about love
• Inside love
• Drawing from your Own Well
• Truth in Songwriting
• Song Structure
• The Song Title
• The Introduction
• The Pre-verse
• The verse
• The Pre-chorus
• The chorus
• The bridge
• The Instrumental break
• The end
• Lovesongs from the midnight sea (Cal Williams Jr.)
• Whither Will (Cal Williams Jr.)
• Part Two - The lyrics
• Stream of consciousness
• Scrambled eggs and the Working lyric
• Collaborative Songwriting
• Rhyme
• Perfect and Oblique Rhyme
• Non-Rhyming
• Combination Rhyming
• The Importance of Phrasing
• Poetry and Songwriting
• Types of Rhyme
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Types of Metaphors
• Analogy
• Allegory
• The Iambic Pentameter
• Recommended Reading
• Part Three - The creative Mind
• Protecting and feeding your creative Mind
• Books
• Music
• Films
• Art
• Poetry
• Yoga and Meditation
• Walking
• Taking care of your body
• The Mental Diet
• Television – The Drug of the Nation
• Worry
• Writer’s block
• The Inner critic
• Affirmations
• Creating the Time to Write
• Maximising your creative Time
• Songcraft – choosing quality Over quantity
• Avoid the Songwriting Regime
• Songwriting Discipline
• Part four - The Space
• Your Indoor creative Room
• Making your Own Writing Room
• Your Outdoor creative Room
• Your Inner creative Room
• Part five - The Performance
• Open Mics
• Know your Song Well before you Start Singing
• Perceived Thoughts
• The No-applause blues
• The Performer bubble
• The quiet fan
• Visualisation
• Part Six- The Recording
• Finding a good Studio
• Band Rehearsals
• Solo Recording
• Ensemble Recording
• Band Recording
• Recording Plan
• Budgeting
• Surviving The Recording
• Less is More
• The click Track vs Natural Human Time
• The Mix Down
• Mastering
• Duplication and the glass Master
• Royalties
• Australian Royalties
• aPRa Royalties
• aMcOS Royalties
• World Royalties
• Part Seven - getting your Songs Out There
• Handling criticism
• Promotion
• Networking
• Marketing
• Songwriting competitions
• Local Song competitions
• Songwriting clubs
• Songwriting competition Websites
• Part eight - The voice
• Training your voice
• A Singer versus Someone Who Sings
• Breathing
• Deep breathing
• The Diaphragm
• Vocal Posture
• The Roaring lion Posture or Simha-asana
• Pitching to the guitar
• The vowel Technique
• Vocal Scales
• Taking care of your vocal Health
• Vocal Warm-ups
• The Sirening and Speedboat Technique’s
• Vocal Techniques to avoid
• Vocal Techniques to Maintain
• Part Nine - The guitar
• What is a Key?
• What is a chord?
• Open chords
• Modified Open chords
• Barre chords
• Modified barre chords
• Book of the guitar Toolbox Series
• The Major & Minor Scale chord charts
• The Major Scale chord chart
• The Minor Scale chord chart
• Conclusion
• In case of Technical Difficulties
• Cal Williams Jr
• The Cal Williams Jr guitar School
• Other books by Cal Williams Jr