Page status: Draft
Created:Aug 2026
Reviewed:-
To do:Mostly everything.

Songwriting

Melody, Harmony, Accompaniment and Counterpoint

Keppie & Benny

Ryan Leach

Hook Theory

Creation purpose 1.2.0

What is Creation about (and not about)? Define the "Gates", a checklist of what we're doing. The Objective is pure emotion and performance. Keep the technical friction zero. No deep mixing, no complex automation.Simply capture the core melody, lyrics, and progression. (not sure this is the best place for this)

Song concept & mood 1.2.1

Key, Scale & Modal Choices 1.2.2

Chord progressions & harmony 1.2.3

Melody writing 1.2.4

Lyric writing 1.2.5

Hook & structure instinct 1.2.6

This will be the intuition and songwriting craft part, not the Cubase mechanics of building sections, which lives in Arranging. add x-ref to that.

Capturing and Demoing Ideas 1.2.7

Mention VariAudio here?