Page 99 - Song Maps - A New System to Write Your Best Lyrics - Simon Hawkins
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Writing with a combination of Song Maps is very simple:
Decide which Song Maps you would like to combine
Select your song structure (e.g. AABA or VCVCBC)
Assign to each section an element from your selected Song Maps
Review to make sure your new Song Map has effective development and payoff
It may take a few attempts to get it right, but this is a neat way of generating new and unique Song Maps to reflect better your authentic voice in your own writing, much like a professional keyboard player creates their own patches on a synthesizer, rather than using factory patches.
Exercise
If you have a copy of the Song Maps Workbook, this would be a good time to complete Exercise #10 - Combining Two Song Maps.