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Mozart’s Deceptive Simplicity

November 18, 2009 By Graham English

Hear commentator Rob Kapilow demonstrate how Mozart sets up our expectations but takes us in unpredictable directions in the String Quintet in G minor. His music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: classical, classical music, melody, Mozart, NPR, phrase length, phrasing, simplicity, symmetry, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Samurai Songwriting Issue 2 Is Now Available

May 17, 2007 By Graham English

It's time to dig into the second issue of Samurai Songwriting. If you're not a subscriber, join now. If you want to purchase just this issue, you can do that here: 1. Select your country USA Outside USA Here's what we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: lyric writing, melody, Samurai Songwriting, Songwriting, songwriting tips

Last Chance To Get Issue 1 With Your Membership

May 16, 2007 By Graham English

If you're interested in subscribing to Samurai Songwriting, today is the best day to do it. Tomorrow, Issue 2 will be released and if you subscribe now, you'll have access to both Issue 1 and Issue 2. After tomorrow, Issue 1 will cost extra. So if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: lyric writing, melody, Samurai Songwriting, Songwriting, songwriting tips

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 05-20-07

May 12, 2007 By Graham English

Topics covered: Advice to developing songwriters, the art and craft of songwriting, strategies for writing hooks and melodies, a 7-step process to writing hit songs, and much more. Download: Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 05-20-07 Subscribe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: advice, hit songwriting, hit songwriting tips, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, hooks, interviews, lyric writing, melody, podcasts, song titles, Songwriting, songwriting process, songwriting tips, tips

How To Use Tension And Release In Your Melodies

April 23, 2007 By Graham English

Music, much like life, is fundamentally a swinging pendulum between tension and release. Fortunately, with music, this is easy to represent objectively and to utilize in your music composition. Taking a look at the C major scale, you can see that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: composing, composing strategies, consonance, counterpoint, dissonance, fundamentals, harmony, HowTo, improvisation, intervals, lessons, melody, music fundamentals, Music Theory, scales, soloing, stability and instability, tension and release, Writing Music

John Lennon Hit Songwriting Teleseminar

April 17, 2007 By Graham English

At this moment, you're just a $20 click away from discovering the Hit Songwriting Secrets of John Lennon... even if you're starting from scratch. April 18th and 19th, 2007 6pm PST/ 8pm CST/ 9pm EST Count me in! Please reserve my tele-slot for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events, Seminars Tagged With: chord progressions, chorus, harmony, John Lennon, lyric writing, melody, Samurai Songwriting, Songwriting, songwriting tips

Fmin 82bpm

March 30, 2007 By Graham English

I'll stand by you to the end. I'll never desert you. I'll be the one you depend on. The one you can talk to. Download: Fmin 82bpm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 82bpm, dark, F#min, iPod, laid back, LIVE, melody, minor, piano, pop, R&B, slow, ToWrite, verse, Vocal

Applying The 80-20 Rule To Your Songwriting

March 22, 2007 By Graham English

I'm finding more and more that what stops songwriters from finishing songs isn't a lack of good ideas but a misdirection of songwriting focus. Based on the comments I receive, musicians are spending more time on tasks that do little to move the song … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: 80/20 rule, copyright, deliberate practice, GTD, lyric writing, melody, Songwriting, songwriting process, songwriting tips, time-management, writing lyrics

Songwriting Challenges – Where Do I Begin?

March 8, 2007 By Graham English

One of the most common challenges I hear about songwriting is not knowing where to begin. With the lyrics? With the music? Or something completely different? It's a rather simple challenge to find a solution to, really. Start with a single note or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: challenges, composing, composing strategies, creative process, creativity, CreativityHacks, exercises, image streaming, imagination, listening, listening practice, listening skills, lyric writing, melody, random word generator, song writing, Songwriting, songwriting process, songwriting techniques, songwriting tips, strategies, writing lyrics, Writing Music

Music for 12-26-06

December 26, 2006 By Graham English

I'm settling on this melody for now. I might play with the second half of the verse to give it a lift. It's a [tag]Pop[/tag] [tag]triplet feel[/tag] in the key of [tag]B[/tag] at [tag]90bpm[/tag]. [tag]ToWrite[/tag] [tag]verse[/tag] … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 90bpm, B, chorus, melody, pop, ToWrite, triplet feel, verse

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