Music Composition DUMmIES

Good songwriters use form to give their songs the emotional impact needed to make them memorable. Just like the easiest poems to ...

The tempo you choose for your song will be also at least partially determined by how easy it is to sing your lyrics. If your son ...

Note this basic rule when matching lyrics to beats in music: Weak (unac- cented) syllables are usually placed at weak metric poi ...

Any one of those rhythmic patterns could, and does, work for the Purcell phrase. As does (naturally) the one he actually used (F ...

obligation to be interesting, which means bring in a good vocalist to deliver them, or have a good voice yourself. You’re making ...

Chord progressions can’t be copyrighted; only lyrics and melodies can be copyrighted. Still one more way to start a song is to t ...

song, sticks in your head like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth, and repeats throughout your song at critical points. It ...

Making a Great Demo................................................................................... You are going to need to ...

fact, what you should do is cut out only the choicest moments from as diverse a variety of your works as possible, and paste the ...

Identify yourself.................................................................................. Make sure that anything you ...

Chapter 18 Chapter 18: Composing Electronic Music ................................................................... In This Ch ...

Sequencers and digital audio workstations .................................... For composers who are more comfortable composing ...

Scorewriters make it very easy for a composer to write different sections of the same piece of music for a variety of instrument ...

Sound libraries.................................................................................... With many computer programs, ...

Composing on Computers .......................................................................... It’s often a good idea to star ...

at the correct tempo. Then you can set the tempo back to the correct setting for playback. The nice thing about linear performan ...

There is a demand for such loops, and it could become profitable if you can get hooked up with the right business connections. L ...

When using loops for your music, you will find yourself confronted with almost limitless choices of which loops to use and where ...

The fact that computers have provided us with visual tools for musical edit- ing is wonderful. It lets us look at larger chunks ...

It is critical that you save your work frequently, and back it up by making copies onto external hard drives and/or hard media s ...