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Stay the course
I signed up for a Berklee/Coursera songwriting course by Pat Pattison, mainly because I’m trying to figure out how to make music. That, and because it’s free. But it also gives me an opportunity to...
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Lives in a dream
Strange how a little comment can make you see something that’s been there forever in a new light. I’ve known all these Beatles songs since I was a little kid. And even though I never analyze lyrics,...
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Song analysis
I thought it might be interesting to try to apply some of the ideas from the songwriting course to some songs outside of the selected listening list. For example, if we look at the classic song of my...
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Reading The Message
This week in the Songwriting course we looked at rhymes and rhyme schemes and how they can be used to convey meaning in a song. So what if we look at the classic Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five...
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