GARY EWER – Making Use of Musical Ambiguity in Your Songwriting – The Essential Secrets of Songwriting
July 4, 2017
There is a pattern you’ll notice in most pop songs, which is that as they move along, they alternate between sections that are ambiguous in nature and sections that are much clearer and easy to understand. I like using the terms “fragile” and “strong”: In many songs, that “fragile-strong” labelling is synonymous with “verse-chorus” structure.…
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Bach’s Method of Musical Composition
August 26, 2016
Music Composition Tips from Mozart
August 24, 2016
Andrew Wasson – Creating a Strong Melodic Arc
March 20, 2016
Music 133 – Consonance and Dissonance
February 5, 2016
Techniques for Expanding Your Compositions
August 28, 2015
How to Compose a Song – Piano Lessons
June 15, 2015
How to Compose a Song
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Take some piano lessons from Scott Houston “The Piano Guy.” In this video, Scott and his guest, five-time Grammy Award nominee David Benoit, discuss the thought process behind composing music. David Benoit uses his original song, Kei’s Song, as an example.
Scott and David just want to help you to teach yourself piano skills to get you having some fun at a piano as quickly as possible.
In the video David shares some great tips for
composing songs. He shares that typically, he starts composing a new song with his chord selection. Then often he moves to creating the bridge of the song which was the case when he was composing “Kei.” There is a lot of trial and error involved.
When asked where Benoit gets his inspiration from, he confided that composing for him is a balance between piano seat time and time away from the piano. Being away from the piano offers time to reflect and be creative and imaginative. Some of David’s most creative ideas have come while he was on one of his walks. He feels writing in the morning is a good time to devote to seat time. 9:00 –1:00.
The video concludes with a great performance of David Benoit playing “Kei” on Piano.
Scott Houston is the host of The Piano Guy television series on PBS and has taught hundreds of thousands of folks like yourself, how to have some fun on their piano or keyboard. He wants to help you get there too, as quickly as possible.
How to Write Music for a trumpet
May 22, 2015
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Today we discuss another Advanced Music Theory for Trance/EDM
Open Voicing: Spreading out your chords to cover more of a frequency Range
Closed Voicing: Close spread chords to cover only one frequency
Composer Brian Tyler – Writing Music for Fast and Furious 5
January 16, 2014
Brian Tyler talks about his approach to writing music for movies like Fast and the Furious 5 on http://OnTheGig.com. Watch the full interview: http://interviews.onthegig.com/2011/0…
Species Counterpoint
June 19, 2013
1st Species Counterpoint
2nd Species Counterpoint
3rd Species Counterpoint
4th Species Counterpoint
5th Species Counterpoint
Pat Pattison – Lyric Writing – Berkleemusic Open House
February 17, 2013
Learn more about Berkleemusic’s Songwriting courses at: http://bit.ly/yNSKgk
Berkleemusic hosted an online Open House with instructor Pat Pattison on March 24th.
Pat Pattison is an author, clinician, and one of the most renowned songwriting teachers in the world. He created the first-ever Songwriting major at Berklee College of Music, and brought that curriculum online with Berkleemusic, writing and teaching Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies, Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title, and Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music.