Listener Bandwidth & The Tightrope

Today, Callum and Jamie discuss the concept of listener bandwidth and the tightrope. 

In this episode you'll learn: 

• Some practical thoughts on avoiding the pitfalls of ‘2nd verse hell’ and how this relates to listener bandwidth + the tightrope. 
• How to approach people and form real relationships by showing a genuine interest in what they are doing + being a ‘go giver’.
• How you can use pictures and movies to aid in idea development and inject more detail into your songs. 
• Practical ways to generate original metaphors.
• We answer some of your amazing questions that have been submitted.

Pat Pattison on Metaphors.

There are three types of metaphor: 

Expressed Identity - asserts an identity between two nouns (e.g., fear is a shadow; a cloud is a sailing ship). 

Expressed Identity comes in three forms,

• "x is y" (fear is a shadow)
• "the y of x " (the shadow of fear)
• "x's y" (fear's shadow)

Run each of these through all three forms,​

• wind = yelping dog
• wind = river
• wind = highway

Now come up with a few of your own and run them through all three forms. You might even extend them into longer versions (e.g., clouds are sailing ships on rivers of wind).

Qualifying Metaphor - Adjectives qualify nouns; adverbs qualify verbs. Friction within these relationships create metaphor (e.g., hasty clouds, or to sing blindly).

Verbal Metaphor - formed by conflict between the verb and its subject and/or object (e.g., clouds sail; he tortured his clutch; frost gobbles summer down).

​Aristotle says that the ability to see one thing as another is the only truly creative human act. Most of us have the creative spark to make metaphors, we just need to train and direct our energy properly.

Read more about metaphors in Pattison’s book Writing Better Lyrics.

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