Songwriting Schematics

five years ago i started studying songwriting by devouring book after book. i continued finding the same information, over and over. since then i have read hundreds of books, with the purpose of creating a repeatable method for writing a quality song. it wasn't until 2015 that i realized i had been going about it all wrong. i was trying to develop a general overview of songwriting, but i had never truly understood how the most intricate and important details shared common themes. this was an absolute breakthrough for me. by mastering those concepts which are shared by different areas of my songwriting, i could manipulate every part of a song to suit my vision for the song itself. the most astonishing discovery i made, was also the most important. we can utilize the gestalt principles of psychology to create an audible work of art. we can craft our song with the same visual design elements that the artist uses to craft their canvas. we also teach using the 80/20 pareto principle. this m