GARY EWER – Making Use of Musical Ambiguity in Your Songwriting – The Essential Secrets of Songwriting

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

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This is a discussion on Bach’s method of musical composition. Classical music isn’t just another style, or “period” of music. What is shown in this video (full video found: http://larouchepac.com/node/24707 ), is that Bach learned a method based on the scientific discoveries of Johannes Kepler (found: http://larouchepac.com/narrowpath, and http://schillerinstitute.com/music/re… Introduction-).

Just to be provocative, compare what you hear in this preliminary discussion to the “philosophers” of modern composition, like Theodore Adorno, who wrote in “The Philosophy of Modern Music”, “What radical music perceives is the untransfigured suffering of man…. The seismographic registration of traumatic shock becomes, at the same time, the technical structural law of music. It forbids continuity and development. Musical language is polarized according to its extreme; towards gestures of shock resembling bodily convulsions on the one hand, and on the other towards a crystalline standstill of a human being whom anxiety causes to freeze in her tracks…. Modern music sees absolute oblivion as its goal. It is the surviving message of despair from the shipwrecked.”
“It is not that schizophrenia is directly expressed therein; but the music imprints upon itself an attitude similar to that of the mentally ill. The individual brings about his own disintegration…. He imagines the fulfillment of the promise through magic, but nonetheless within the realm of immediate actuality…. Its concern is to dominate schizophrenic traits through the aesthetic consciousness. In so doing, it would hope to vindicate insanity as true health.”

What is meant by “radical music”? The composers like Arnold Schoenberg, Bertolt Brecht, George Gershwin, Atonalism, movie music, etc, etc.

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Music Composition Tips from Mozart

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Andrew Wasson – Creating a Strong Melodic Arc

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Published on Mar 18, 2016

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Q: Hi Andrew, I’m a long time fan of the guitar lessons you post on YouTube and I wanted to ask you a question about the songs you write for them. Your music is really melodic and always has a strong flow. It’s like the melody has a long arc across an entire section, (i.e., Verse or Chorus). Could you make a lesson with tips on how to compose like that? I want to eventually have my melodies flowing as strongly as yours.
Krystian – Lakewood, Colorado USA

A: Musicians who compose music that has a melody flowing across a long melodic arc work for a long time on creating their melodies. I remember when I was a teenager, learning guitar, I was always trying to build longer and more flowing melodies. I’d work out sections of scales in several areas of the guitar neck. And, I’d focus a lot of attention to the music building as it moved section to section. I became interested in learning several of the Bach exercises for viola and violin, (i.e., Sonata in G Minor: Presto). Bach’s studies inspired me to look further into how melodies could have a longer flow. In this lesson, we’ll look at ways that a melody can stretch over a longer arc. We’ll work on this using different intervals & arpeggios, as well as, harmonies, and we’ll also look at how rhythm plays a role in this arc as well. Enjoy!

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How to Compose a Song – Piano Lessons

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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.

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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.