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Gary Ewer has a great post on tension and release in songwriting: What keeps a listener listening? If you can’t answer that you’ll be relegated to the dust-heap of music history, along with all the other songs that listeners got bored with. The answer to the question? It’s tension, then release, that keep listeners listening. It’s a [...] I’ve discovered a sure-fire method that will allow you to write great songs in 30 minues or less. Here’s what you do (NB I haven’t got all of these absolutely sorted for myself yet. I’m still learning): 1. Start learning music from a young age. It helps to have musical parents, to go to a school where [...] The most popular post on songwright.co.uk is one about Alexander Rybak’s song ‘Fairytale’ which won the Eurovision song contest this year. The majority of comments on it are from people asking whether I have the sheet music. I find this troubling because there is nothing complicated in the song that would warrant the need to [...] Iron Maiden are one of my favourite bands, and one of the most influential heavy metal bands ever. A great post over at ‘Troll in the Corner’ got me thinking about them, and listening to some of my favourite Maiden songs. Fear of the Dark, the title track from their 1992 album, the last before Bruce [...] NB.I’ve since written a follow up to this post which can be found here I watched Eurovision 2009 on Saturday. I even drank Bucks Fizz and managed to get through the interminably long scoring section without getting bored and turning over. I’ve watched Eurovision for the last three or four years, and the standard is getting better. [...] Following on from yesterday’s post, here are two other guitar chord shapes with the root, third, fifth and octave labelled. The E Shape
The D Shape
A couple of people have emailed to ask if I could go through my recent post about the C chord shape in a little more detail. Happy to oblige. Every major chord contains these notes: The Root Note Guitar chord shapes often have the same note twice in different octaves. For example, the note [...] I’m going back to basics for the guitar playing songwriters amongst you. The more experienced guitar players won’t find much new in these articles, but for those of you who have been playing for a little while and know a few chord shapes, this should help to bring together the different shapes you’re using, help [...] How can I harmonise my melody? You can harmonise any melody using just three chords. Really? Great! Which three? I, IV and V. Erm… no, you’ve made a mistake, chords have letter names: A, C, F, G… They do, but they can also be given numbers. Roman numerals are used to generalise. Every major scale is different, but they all [...] What is the root note of a C major chord? C, of course! What bass note should you use for a C chord? C!… or E…. Or G? Come again? You get a choice. Often you’ll hear C in the bass of a C chord, but that isn’t the only option. An inversion or ’slash’ chord is where you change [...] |
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