Song Crafting Lessons
Song Crafting offers you a behind the scenes look at the creative process involved in songwriting. This can cover a lot of territory, such as coming up with melodies, chord progressions, lyrics, and arrangements, not to mention all the revisions done in each of these areas. It can also encompass the subsequent performance and even the recording of a song.
Alternate Writing Styles
By David Hodge
Lots of fun this week - a neat way of using alternate tunings, a really, really cool alternate tuning to use, the surprising return of the C major scale and an original song!
Building Bridges
By David Hodge
This week's column looks at song structure. More specifically we are looking at the bridge, which has been around almost as long as the study of music. You can find examples of it in classical music, religious music and, of course, the popular music of any given era in history.
Waiting For Nancy - Song Crafting Session # 1
By David Hodge
Follow the evolution of an original song from start to finish! There's no better way to learn to create something than to sit in on the process of creation. From silly idea to demo recording - you get to sit in on the whole thing and you can even hear the final results.
Understanding Your Work - Song Crafting Session # 2
By A-J Charron
Sometimes you write down something that sounds good and later (often much later) you figure out why. Here's an interesting look at this from A-J, concerning one of his songs, Jasmine Scents.
Practical Insights In Songwriting
By Gilbert Isbin
The song Picking A Flower was the January winner in the International Songwriting Contest Song of the Year in the category jazz/world/instrumental. Guitarist (and Guitar Noise contributor) Gilbert Isbin tells us of the steps he took in writing the music for this award-winning song. At the end of the article, Gilbert is kind enough to give us more links and information on the song and the contest itself, including reviews from listeners.
Songwriter Or Craftsman?
By Robert Walker
In his first article for Guitar Noise, German guitarist Robert Walker discusses some of the finer differences between being a songwriter and a craftsman and offers songwriters some tips on how to move to the next level of instrumental songwriting.
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