"Lowering the Gangplank: How Writing Songs Relates to Templating"
summary
Claim: templating maps to songwriting by reusing melody, rhythm and rhyme as a template and inserting new lyrics as data. Shows pitfalls of line‑replacement (loss of visibility and inconsistent results) and recommends using real templating tools like ginger Library. Demonstrates a live parody generator: reworks "Rolling Down to Old Maui" into rolling out the next release, sings choruses about 3.12, CI/CD and pipelines, uses audience participation, and notes when the parody succeeds and where the template needs tweaks.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:19Speaker background
- 5:50What is templating
- 11:28Understanding templating
- 13:59Songwriting and templating
- 14:20Live parody demo
- 22:25Audience parody
- 22:48Original song templates
- 28:37Summary
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