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MusicHack #5. Turn It Upside Down

June 20, 2006 By Graham English

In honor of my brother's birthday. He turns 30 today. Happy Birthday Brian! :) Here it is inverted: Here it is backwards: First person to guess the original melody gets a free standard edition of Absolute Pitch Power. Post your answer in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch Power, melody, MusicHacks

How To Hear Interval Quality Distinctions

May 8, 2006 By Graham English

If you can do a good job identifying your basic diatonic intervals (unison, major 2nd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th, major 7th, perfect octave), the next logical step is to move on to hearing the distinctions between the different … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: distinctions, Ear Training, harmony, intervals, melody, relative pitch

Music for 02-24-06

February 24, 2006 By Graham English

I tightened up the song I wrote yesterday and recorded this piano track. I'm going to commit to a melody and start putting some lyrics to the form. [tag]BbMAJ7[/tag] 95bpm. Download: Music for 02-24-06 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 95bpm, ballad, BbMAJ7, chorus, coldplay, EbMAJ7, edit, LIVE, melody, pop, rock, solo piano, song, ToWrite, u2, verse

Music for 02-23-06d

February 23, 2006 By Graham English

This is an edit of the track before. It's a pop rock ballad (u2, coldplay); EbMAJ7, BbMAJ7. You can hear the verse and chorus shaping up with a melody, form and changes. I'm going to write the lyrics and FINISH this one. Download: Music for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: ballad, BbMAJ7, coldplay, EbMAJ7, edit, melody, pop, rock, u2, Vocal

Music for 02-23-06c

February 23, 2006 By Graham English

This is the work in progress of the next song. No need to listen to this unless you want to hear me composing. Around 12:00 I start to find what I'm looking for. Download: Music for 02-23-06c … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: ballad, BbMAJ7, coldplay, composing, EbMAJ7, LIVE, melody, pop, rock, rough, u2, Vocal

Songwriting For Busy People

February 10, 2006 By Graham English

Mind Hacks posted how choice is demotivating when there are too many options. "Offer students a choice of 6 essays, rather than 30 essays, for extra-credit and more will take up the opportunity if there is less choice of essay titles - and, what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: GarageBand, GTD, harmony, iPod, iTunes, Logic Pro, lyrics, melody, MindHacks, mood markings, music notation, recorded audio, rhythm, song titles, Songwriting, tags, tempo, writing lyrics, Writing Music

How Do You Develop New And Interesting Chord Changes?

February 8, 2006 By Graham English

Here's a handful of my top techniques that I use to develop new and interesting chord changes. 1. Stick with I-IV-V I know, it's not new, but I-IV-V doesn't have to be uninteresting. There's a reason why these chords are so fundamental to our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: blues, chord changes, chord progressions, classical music, contrast, mashups, melody, modal, modes, music software, rhythm, Songwriting, songwriting techniques, SongwritingHacks

Top 10 Lyric Writing Insights

February 6, 2006 By Graham English

*Before I continue, and I'll say this many times, I operate under the assumption that the opposite of everything I say is equally true. Including the opposite of what I just said. :) Here's my top 10 lyric writing insights: 1. The rhythm of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: consonance, contrast, contrasting ideas, details, development, don't tell, line length, lyric writing, lyrics, melody, metaphor, perspective, point of view, prosody, rhyme, rhyme schemes, rhythm, rules, setting, show, song forms, Songwriting, SongwritingHacks, spotlights, stress, verb tense, writing lyrics

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