Singer Songwriter

Music Production

Finding Your Process and Protecting Your Ideas

Part One of this course lays the groundwork before you write a single line that matters. Blessed walks through the two natural entry points into songwriting, lyrics first or melody first, the habit that protects every idea the moment it happens, and how to adapt when a lyric and a beat don’t naturally fit together.

This part isn’t about writing your best song yet. It’s about building the process and daily discipline that make writing possible even on the days inspiration doesn’t show up on its own.

Introduction to Blessed

Module One: Finding Your Natural Songwriting Entry Point, and Never Losing a Good Idea Again

Module Two: The Merge, Reconciling Melody and Lyrics

Module Three: Songwriting as a Lifestyle

Module Four: Becoming Your Own Source of Inspiration Instead of Waiting for It

Part One Workbook & Outcomes

Part One: Origins & Foundations

Building Characters and Emotional Connection

Part Two moves from mechanics into meaning: how to make a listener actually feel something. Blessed shows why emotional connection, not technical polish, is the real job of a songwriter, how to build a character worth following even when it isn’t drawn from your own life, and how to map that character’s journey onto a song’s structure.

This part gives every song a reason to matter to someone else, not just to the writer.

Introduction to Storytelling

Module Five: Why Emotional Connection, Not Perfect Technique, Is a Songwriter’s Real Job

Module Six: Building a Compelling Character, Even When It Isn’t Your Own Story

Module Seven: Mapping Your Song’s Structure to Your Character’s Emotional Journey

Part Two Workbook & Outcomes

Part Two: Storytelling & Character

Perspective, Voice and Chorus-First Structure

With character and structure in place, Part Three sharpens the technical decisions that shape how a song is told: which perspective to write from, what makes a songwriting voice distinctive, and why Blessed builds every song around the chorus first.

This part is where storytelling choices become concrete songwriting decisions.

Module Eight: Choosing the Right Perspective to Tell Your Story, First, Second or Third Person

Module Nine: What Dylan, The Beatles and Adele Teach You About Finding Your Own Voice

Module Ten: Why Blessed Always Writes the Chorus First, and How the Bridge Changes Everything

Module Eleven: Why Melody Is the Language Everyone Speaks, Even Without Knowing It

Part Three Workbook & Outcomes

Part Three: Song Structure & Finding Your Perspective

Part Four takes you inside a real session on Blessed’s own music, showing exactly how a finished vocal comes together. From the gear he actually uses through to a bar-by-bar breakdown of a real verse, this is Blessed’s most hands-on, most personal advice in the course.

This is where everything taught earlier gets applied, live, on a real song.

Module Twelve: Blessed’s Real Home Studio Setup, and Why Expensive Gear Isn’t the Answer

Module Thirteen: Inside a Real Session, Building a Melody From Scratch on Blessed’s Own Song

Module Fourteen: Layering Harmony for Texture and Emotion, Recorded Live

Module Fifteen: Breaking Down a Real Verse Bar by Bar, Double Entendres and the Four-Bar Switch

Blessed’s Full Workbook & Outcomes

Part Four: Blessed’s Best Advice

Step behind the curtain with a working songwriter who treats every session like a real one, using his own original tracks as the examples throughout. This isn't a generic songwriting formula, it's an insider's look at how one artist actually turns a spark of inspiration into a finished song, bar by bar.Across melody, harmony, lyrics, storytelling and structure, Blessed distils his own process into lessons you can apply the very next time you sit down to write.His philosophy centres on adaptability over perfection: whether you're lyric-first or melody-first, whether the beat you're handed matches the words you already love or doesn't. He believes the goal isn't technical flawlessness, it's honesty, resonance and the discipline to keep showing up whether inspiration hits or not.You'll learn how to:<ul><li>Protect every idea you have by building the habit of capturing inspiration the instant it happens, before it disappears.</li><li>Adapt a lyric to any beat you're handed, without losing what made the original idea work.</li><li>Write from a character beyond yourself, including a "future self" persona, so you're never limited to only your own lived experience.</li><li>Structure a song with real intention, mapping where tension should build and where the release should land.</li><li>Choose a melody that matches the emotion of a track, using a simple repeat-then-resolve technique that keeps a hook memorable without becoming a loop.</li><li>Layer harmony and craft lyrics with genuine depth, including a technique for switching cadence to keep a listener locked in for the whole song.</li></ul>You'll get exclusive access to Blessed's own frameworks, worked examples and personal habits, giving you a toolkit to: capture ideas before they vanish, adapt lyrics to any production, and structure a song that actually lands. By the end of the course, you'll understand not just how to write a song, but how to keep writing them, on your own, without waiting for the spark to find you.Whether you're a singer-songwriter, a self-producing independent artist, or a lyricist looking to sharpen your craft, this course is your blueprint for turning inspiration into a finished, resonant song, in your own voice and on your own time.Join Blessed as he shares his personal songwriting frameworks, worked examples from his own music, and the daily habits that keep the ideas coming, to help you write with more depth, more consistency and more of your own voice.

In this exclusive mentor session, Blessed breaks down his complete songwriting process, from the first idea captured on a phone to a fully arranged vocal, so you can turn fleeting inspiration into a finished, resonant song in your own voice.

Course content

BLESSED - Catch the Lightning - Songwriting and Self Producing

Helen Marx

What you will learn

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