4 simple steps to writing a song | Ralph Covert | TEDxNaperville

If adhd was a ted talk

sounds like Ween or Weezer

5 years later and I have yet to write a song 😂

Gave me the chills!

This really overcomplicates the process. The Beatles first album will teach you everything you need.

Brilliant lecture. 🤩
As someone teaching in the creative field, I admire the way he gets the audience invested and the way he shows that it is not so difficult to create something yourself. Everyone is creative.
Most other videos focus on the technical and theoretical stuff, such as scales and chords and what not. While all that is useful it is also intimidating and will put people off wanting to learn quickly.
If you want to learn to draw something you also don't learn perspective first, you pick up a pen and start to draw.

This was great info! Thanks!

This guy is seriously awesome.

Well, this confirmed what I already knew. It is really easy to write a bad song.

This guy screams too much!

Yu kno lary here be skiing slopes daily

Useless, just like 90% of ted talks

My problem isn't writing songs my problem is writing good songs

🙏🏼

This is good, imean GOOD okay

Awesome video!!

This guy has a really cool voice! It reminds me of the singers I saw growing up in Dallas' underground scene as a kid

Best Ted talk EVER!!

Ok. So make a choice. Got it. My song still sucks.

Choices

I see what he was trying to say here. I was classically trained in opera & piano so I find it hard to break the rules & just flow. Yet I see my peers with no musical training consistently creating. It’s not that complicated.

"Hot dogs are awesome" could be an REM song

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good job!

He’s right about everything. I knew everything exactly as he said it. I arrived at the same conclusion about everything he said here way before. But I thought that these were my personal songwriting secrets. Now that I hear it from someone else, I feel on the right track.

I have been doing that with my emotional center & art for many many years.

This guy’s energy

Loved it ❤️

Sorry but this is an insult to the craft. It’s not just random words and notes.

what peter parker s doin on the stage?

I mean... This is honestly so silly that you KNOW people would legit meme it to a couple million views for a week these days if it was recorded and released legitimately lmao XD

This guy teaches! 😂

Thank you, Ralph... I know I'm paraphrasing but... "We are all musicians. We cannot help being musicians" is such a divinely profound statement.

We all live within the rhythm of life and express ourselves as storytellers and social beings every day. It's a purity of consciousness we carry within us and so often lose sight of. Love this fun, interactive and enlightening presentation.

If you are listening to this to help your songwriting… you probably should not be writing songs

Coolest Ted talk ever

Take away; it’s easy to write a song , if you follow the 4 steps!! Good job,

I want to hate this so badly but his personality is a force of nature 😆 all the points he make are great.

useless

This guy seems like a trip to be around (in the best possible way)

You listen to 2 songs a day for 50 years if songs are on average 4 minutes that would be 2435 hours .... Nowhere near 100.000 hours. You'd have to live over 2000 years to reach 100.000 hours with only 2 songs a day...

Proof that anyone could get a TED Talk at any point. THis guy belongs in the music industry. The target audience is 4th graders.

The bad examples☠️☠️

Very skeptical at first, but I returned to this video to say that “who’s your daddy who’s your daddy I really miss the Dewey decimal system” has been stuck in my head all day.

My god imagine if all teachers were like that...

Loved this so much. Thank you. 🧡🐳

Awesome!

Hypnosis.

This demonstration is 80% about staying motivated by just having fun doing what you do - 20% about songwriting.... while it's true that it's not good to overcomplicate things, I'm still a little annoyed by speeches that miss the point of the talk.

Ummmmmm... sir your energy was great! The song was not felt through. I think I got the point though.