Please make a special point to listen to this episode. Friedemann Findeisen is a German songwriter and songwriting coach whose brilliant Artist Series on YouTube perfectly captures and explains the songwriting styles of bands like Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, and more. He's a great songwriter himself and coaches people from around the world on how to write their own songs. He's got a unique perspective on pop music, and in this interview, he explains A LOT of how pop music works on the music side of things and helps me (and hopefully you!) to better understand lyrics "holistically." :)

Here are some links we mention in the interview: 

The Holistic Songwriting YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLtD67ljlaeXQMV4sb-YzNA 

The Lyric Canvas (Songwriting Rubric)

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=9XjSVGFDieE

The Blog

http://blog.holistic-songwriting.com/

The Survey

http://blog.holistic-songwriting.com/artistsseries_survey

How Twenty One Pilots write a melody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduMzXKvegE&feature=youtu.be

Contact Friedemann at me@holistic-songwriting.com

Thanks for listening, everyone, and don't forget to shoot me an email at clifford@popsongprofessor.com! I love to hear from you!

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