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PRO LYRIC WRITING! No nonsense guide to songwriting success (Udemy.com)

How to effectively write world class pop song lyrics through real examples and techniques.

Created by: Mike Francis

Last updated January 2020

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What you will learn

  • Where to find inspiration for unlimited lyrics (with real world examples)
  • The basics of rhyme schemes and how you can apply them to your songs
  • The way to craft different styles of lyric whether that be catchy, emotive, or both!
  • How to use the news and other media to create song lyrics
  • How to analyse your lyrics and surgically re-write them to improve every line
  • Why structure can be a crucial component in lyric writing
  • Know what an audience wants to hear from a song lyric and how you can appeal to this
  • How to write a song lyric absolutely from scratch watching me write one myself!
  • The pros and cons of writing the lyrics or music first

How it compares

Against the other 270 rated Udemy courses in Music on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 14% of them
  • Reviews86#222 of 271 by number of reviews
  • Length3 hoursshorter than 54% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2020earlier than 81% of them

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Course Description

Wanting to improve your lyric and song writing but struggling to find any real examples to help? This is the course for you.

My name is Mike and I have played my music to thousands of people all over the world including London's most exclusive and famous venues frequented by Ed Sheeran and Jimi Hendrix. In addition to this I have written and songs to hundreds of clients online.

In this course, I will teach you everything I know about how to craft song lyrics.


Why is this course labelled 'no nonsense'? - So many lyric writing courses give fluffy advice like 'believe in yourself and the lyrics will come' or 'listen to your heart' which I frankly think is a waste of students money. While these comments have a place, beginners need ACTIONABLE steps they can use with real-world examples. In this course, we throw out the fluff for action and DO IT.


Why should I listen to you? - I have song hundreds of songs to clients all over the world. Every week I have to flex my lyric writing muscles and this course teaches you the blueprint I use for my own well-reviewed songs.


What's the structure of the course? Throughout our time together I will take you through the basics of great lyric writing in Act One, through more in depth analysis and REAL EXAMPLES in Act Two and finally write a song from scratch uses what we have learnt in Act Three.

By the end of the course you will have the necessary toolkit to TRANSFORM your lyric writing potential! Whether you are a singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, Garageband/Logic producer or just interested in music composition, this will help your lyric and hook creation.


What are other people saying about the course? 

'This course is perfect for me. I have been writing poetry for years and have always wanted to turn my poems into lyrics and then into songs. I had started doing that before this course and now I know how to restructure my writing for music and it is making all the difference' - Vito R DeLuca

'An incredible resource. Wonderful explained thoroughly and excellent insight and knowledge. Amazing for any songwriter' - David Holloway

'Clear and concise, whilst also easing to listen to. Great Guy' - Matt Clavey

'So far everything is well explained, the order of each step is absolutely on point and the course is perfectly structured. The fact that the videos are more or less short is also a great advantage for me as I don’t have the time to watch an hour long video in one go (and I’d hate to do it in several). Simple tips that we might not think about and great tips for sure. I also enjoy the references used in this course as it helps to illustrate each point even more. This course is, in my opinion, a little diamond' - Megane Choisel


If you are are a poet moving to lyric writing, a beginner song writer or instrumentalist wanting to learn, enrol now. I can't wait to see how far you come!


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Instructor Details

Mike Francis

Hi there, my name is Mike and I am an experienced professional musician based in London, England. Over the last 15 years I have played to thousands of people and written songs for people all around the world. I'd love you to join me on my course. If you would like to email me for further private teaching drop me a message!


Thanks and see you soon

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Reviews

4.4

86 ratings on Udemy

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By Tex Player on 4/22/2026

This was a well delivered course that stuck on topic and provided a lot of very good and useful information. I would recommend it to beginner and intermediate songwriters.

By Layne Savage on 10/8/2024

. I really enjoyed this course and will refer to it as needed. This course is well structured and makes for easy learning. I learned new stuff about rhyme schemes that I have never seen before in the many books that I have read on this topic. Also, I like that Mike shared how he writes a song from scratch.

By Sahar Ayachi on 6/17/2022

Nice course, easy to follow. Would recommend it mostly for beginner song writers as it covers quite a nice range of things in a clear and understandable way

By Jackson McDonnell on 4/9/2022

Its kinda good but like he doesnt explain enough in my opinion He still lets me understand a lot and i know than i knew before

By Cotoara Eduard on 2/6/2022

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By Daniel Teller on 3/30/2021

Walking through writing a song from the ground up was very inspiring, and really taught a lot.

By Gregory D Dollar on 3/3/2021

Not much of a "match" for me, but it was helpful in some areas. Thank you for the experience.

By David Harpur Holloway on 6/12/2020

An incredible resource. Wonderful, explained throughly and excellent insight and knowledge. Amazing for any songwriter.

By Vito R DeLuca on 3/25/2020

This course is perfect for me. I have been writing poetry for years and have always wanted to turn my poems into lyrics and then into songs. I had started doing that before this course and now I know how to restructure my writing for music and it is making all the difference.

By Ryan Walden on 1/29/2020

Its good content and logical. Only a few lessons in and its looking promising. Already learned a few things i haven’t though about.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100