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Lyrics: Advanced Music Theory & Songwriting
Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com and we are going to be talking about advanced theory in song writing. Okay, so we talked about in our basic song writing the three primary parts are lyrics, melody and harmony. Now again we are talking about song writing not composition. It is not that that you cannot write an instrumental assisted classical composition and those kinds of things do not will involve other things. So first we talk about the lyrics. We talked about that lyrics have to succeed as a poem. That does not mean that it have to be beautiful. It just means that you need to look at it as being successful without the music to drive it and you need to think in terms of what is the purpose. Is this supposed to be a love song then it should sound like that, is this suppose to be an odd unusual thing then the words will need to reflect that be odd and unusual. Lots of people, like for example Tory Amos or James Taylor write songs that are great songs, but then you read the lyrics and you get a feeling rather than knowing exactly what is going on. James Taylor’s dark sun and lake, last night I think I might have heard the highway calling, geese and flight, dogs that bite; what does that mean? I do not know exactly what that means, but it gives you a picture of a guy is out, he is walking, you know he is experiencing stuff and so it is not a direct. You know I believe I should leave and go you know on an extended hike. Yes, you know that will be a more direct way of saying it, but you need to look at your lyrics telling the story or being hidden and veiled. You need to consider them from that standpoint though.
Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com and we are going to be talking about advanced theory in song writing. Okay, so we talked about in our basic song writing the three primary parts are lyrics, melody and harmony. Now again we are talking about song writing not composition. It is not that that you cannot write an instrumental assisted classical composition and those kinds of things do not will involve other things. So first we talk about the lyrics. We talked about that lyrics have to succeed as a poem. That does not mean that it have to be beautiful. It just means that you need to look at it as being successful without the music to drive it and you need to think in terms of what is the purpose. Is this supposed to be a love song then it should sound like that, is this suppose to be an odd unusual thing then the words will need to reflect that be odd and unusual. Lots of people, like for example Tory Amos or James Taylor write songs that are great songs, but then you read the lyrics and you get a feeling rather than knowing exactly what is going on. James Taylor’s dark sun and lake, last night I think I might have heard the highway calling, geese and flight, dogs that bite; what does that mean? I do not know exactly what that means, but it gives you a picture of a guy is out, he is walking, you know he is experiencing stuff and so it is not a direct. You know I believe I should leave and go you know on an extended hike. Yes, you know that will be a more direct way of saying it, but you need to look at your lyrics telling the story or being hidden and veiled. You need to consider them from that standpoint though.
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Expert: With a Master's Degree in Music, Mark W. Black, owner & founder of "Promethean Studios" Dallas, has taught hundreds of beginner and advanced students how to increase their music skills. Read More
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