i know what you mean, so many online courses are kinda meh. i found some good songwriting tips in "The Craft of Lyric Writing" by Sheila Davis. got it from z-library.sk – it’s free, so worth checking out.

 

Find a professional songwriter and lock him in the basement of your house for a year and tell him that the key to your freedom is to sit down and make 100 songs with me. This is the only way you can learn the best techniques as quickly as possible. Otherwise, you cannot learn the real secrets and techniques of songwriting from books. Other methods of learning to write songs are very time-consuming and have no guarantee. Writing songs is a private work and no one teaches anyone else, and the only way is to forcefully learn from someone.

 

Many famous songwriters and artists or those in big music industries prefer to take what they have learned to the grave but not teach it to anyone. Unfortunately, history shows the same. How many people do you know who have reached high levels in songwriting and the music industry and have taught their secrets to others?

There are two types of learning:
1- One is when you learn all the secrets from the idea stage to the final stage directly from someone.
2- The second is to add to your learning indirectly from listening to songs. This method is similar to disassembly in software cracking. Very time consuming and inefficient. Most people have no choice but to use this one. Because really, accessing very famous writers and artists is like finding a drop of water in a dry, grassless desert.

 

mmm the tutorial is already gone!!

 

Yeah - 6 STEPS TO SONGWRITING SUCCESS - Jason Blume

 

Two different skills, we all have the ability to write songs without any instruction or tutoring because, I assume, we've all listened to a huge amount of music, so we all have a dormant ability to create music just waiting to be tapped. No so with poetry, unless you are into it, then, i assume, if you read lots of prose you'll gradually get the idea and will be able to write with ease, true of any skill aquired solely from knowledge , observation and practical application.

I use mainly sampled vocals as they've come a long way since da vox stabs of da 90's, the Ah Yeah, Get Up, C'mon, Everybody, sorta thing, so much so a few of my track reviews have mentioned the 'great vocals', including raps, but you do need to look and boy oh boy 'ave i got some vox packs und then some, you need to dig deep as there's plenty there.

The beat or pulse will determine the words and how many syllables are in those words, try to write a melody to this.

Do You Love Me
Or dont you really care
Will you leave me
Or stay for evermore

That's the key, match the syllables to da beat and put the right note on dat beat. Now you just gotta find some decent intervals/notes, they are there to be chosen, choose some, no good, try some others 'til it sounds great to you.

It's not rocket science.