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ABOUT KEPPIE

Hi I'm Keppie. I'm a professional songwriter, and songwriting teacher. I've been teaching song and lyric writing for over 10 years now for some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world— Berklee Online, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Open Academy, as well as for the Australian College of the Arts. At other times, I've taught for the Australian Institute of Music, as well as the LA School of Songwriting.

My goal is to help people write better songs! My experience in the classroom, with thousands of students at this point (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful, deliberate practice. My intention is to share the skills, knowledge, information, and ideas that I've gathered with anyone who wants to improve their songwriting.

Keppie's music is here:

ABOUT BENNY

Hi I'm Benny. My passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. I am a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia's best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas.

I am also the Founder and Head Producer of SILAMOR STUDIOS, a boutique studio specialising in Composition for Film, TV and Interactive Media. I write extensively across various instrumental and lyric-based genres and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible. I currently release original songs under the name SILAMOR.

I am also passionate about education and have taught song and lyric writing as well as film composition for JMC Academy, Collarts and the Australian Institute of Music. I design and regularly facilitate workshops on creative process and innovation.

Links to Bennny's music are here:

The Green Mohair Suits

SILAMOR

[thecomorbiditycurator]

personally, I think the mark of a talented lyricist is their ability to write something deeply personal and specific in a way that is relatable to listeners and has an adaptable meaning for shifting points of view.

[homecafejapan]

"They want to see themselves in your song"
What a good advice! Thanks for sharing ❤

[TheDailySongwriter]

Love this! I write because I have faith that someone out there listens to the story and learns that they’re not alone. This sensory writing sounds like it’ll be a huge help with making that more likely to happen. Thank you!

[douggubbe]

Thank you for the videos on song writing tips. I am only a few years into my journey (ad hoc) and I can certainly see the relevance to everything you said.

[GRBAquatics]

I am Struggling a bit with discerning between "I" and "You" in some of my songs. Both work, but one is the key to successfully 'creating' that amazing Lyric. Thanks for everything you do, so awesome. Cheers from Perth.

[michaeljoevitale]

Great short, Pat Pattison's "Songwriting without boundaries" is a book I've read with a lot of sense bound prompts, good stuff, recommended

[LesterWayneDobos]

songwriting is a planned art, but for most people just want to have their sound quality the best it can be and that is incredibly difficult to compete with the best. That is why great songwriting can’t survive without good sound engineering and vice versa, having those two come into alignment is one of lifes rarest gems, a life study

[TheMightyKingzuru]

Mississippi delta shining like a national guitar.

[AliceMilne-vy]

Thank you I really appreciate all this great advice that you provide 🙏

[LawderOfficial]

I love paradoxically things like in sweet dreams from beyonce she sings about this dream that she does not want to wake up from, but it gets broken with backing vocals that sing “turn the lights on”, if it would be “off”, it would lose the paradoxical nature of dreams, and also sound worse. i feel these little things contribute more than people actively talk about, as i strongly belief the human experience in life is a paradox in of itself.

[JasonPruett]

most recently my fav song is hurricane by cannons.

[williamgriffin]

Thanks so much for your videos! Such a great resource.

[mystikrebel]

Brilliant advice and tips. Thanks from freezing London

[JasonPruett]

i was looking for your channel the other day. so it seems all the famous songs appear to be like a dream the writer is having it writes it's self. Usually the song means something to the writer but like a dream they dont know what its meaning is and for that one needs someone who can interpret dreams. very few people can. all the listener knows is somehow this is a very compelling song the music is good but they dont understand its message. many great lyrics were written all at once within 30 min or so like stairway to heaven.

[mrswaggmusic]

Thks i did forget about the inside stuff

[OmnipotentSag]

You gave me an epiphany! Our eyes, nose, ears, fingers, tongue tell us about what's OUTSIDE of ourselves, but our feelings, intuition, thoughts tell us about what's INSIDE ourselves. -==-O

[chiyobamiyoba]

I want to learn to write songs. Great voice in me but I always find myself re- singing other people's songs. I need guidance. Where to start from, dos and Don't s and everything I need to have my way up the mountain

[MaybeBlooth]

Such a cutie with such a lovely speaking voice? Thanks for the helpful vid.

[boristubeti]

Could you give an example of an inside the body feeling?

[mvlmvlg]

Hello Keppie and Benny great info and video as always! Very informative! I will be using this towards my songwriting🥳
I also wanted to know how long will the song writing course be available for? Thanks again! ^^