Composition Strategies for Beginners
The Creative Building Blocks
Have you read our Whole Brain Songwriting concept?
Well lets say that you took the opportunity to let your creativity simply pour out of you: unobstructed by the analytical side of your mind. Ideally when you are finished you should have lots of separate little phrases of inspirational music. These are the raw building blocks which your analytical mind can use to build a coherent song.
Meta Structures
Usually there are three distinct parts to a song. Verse, Chorus, and Bridge. Sometimes the bridge is just an instrumental "break" from the basic theme.
Once a song is properly arranged: the human brain can hear it once with total recall. We almost instinctively KNOW what will come next in a well developed song.
Once you get the sense of how power songs are structured: you will hear the basic patterns in anything from the Beetles to Beethoven.
Forget about that old idea of trying to come up with a "hook" for your song. In the best music, the WHOLE SONG is a hook!
Even the instrumental patterns are based on the same theme and variation arrangement. This is why most people can guess (or recall) the name of a well written song after hearing just a few notes from the introduction.
Your Emotional Soul-Palate
Often in various musical genres: the same melody will be repeated over and over while the backing chords are changed to subtly shift the emotional import.
An important key to developing great music is to become familiar with the unique chord structures common to various styles of music. These chords are your artistic palate: like the colors a visual artist uses to paint with. The different "shades" of musical color enable you to express different feelings and moods in your music.
Taking the time to familiarize your self these essential chord options gives you a powerful basis for song writing.
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