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Chapter 3 - What is Song Mapping?
In Chapter 2, I described why, as a staff writer with Universal Music Publishing, I needed to have access to a bank of writable ideas with me in the writing room when I traveled to Nashville to co-write.
This chapter is crucial. We'll be looking at the building blocks of Song Mapping and what Song Maps look like. You'll discover what to do with ideas when they arrive, the difference between a story and a plot and why the flow of ideas is key to your writing. I'm also going to give you a special gift–the songwriter's secret weapon–before explaining what a writable idea is, the place of Song Maps in generating writable ideas and how they can help you write the best songs of your songwriting career.