Songwriting Berklee-style with Mimika

Fresh off the heels of her new release, ‘Love and What I Thought It Was’, Mimika is making the transition from songwriter to soul-baring artist. With over 2 million streams as a writer and a degree from Berklee College of Music, Mimika’s ‘story first’ approach to songwriting has earned her the kind of balance that allows her to captivate audiences around the world.

Mimika shared the process behind her song I Can See The End. Download the lyrics to follow along.

We talked about:

• Story-first songwriting that extends to an entire EP (6 songs)
• Writing a pre-verse to your song – a very 1950s kind of thing
• Mimika’s expertise with unity and prosody in her melodies, lyrics, and tension
• Writing a song with a varying tempo
• Songwriting Workshop with Susan Cattaneo: Recoloring the Chorus – YouTube
• Try writing with your non-dominant hand – you’ll write slower and force you to consider your next word differently
• Does knowing many cool songwriting tools ever get in the way of organically writing a song?
• Writing “prototype” songs