Ostinato: Boost Your Songwriting Creativity
Ostinato: Boost Your Songwriting Creativity What is an “ostinato”? In classical music, an “ostinato” is a motif or phrase that keeps persistently repeating in the same voice throughout a composition or part of a composition. The plural of ostinato is ostinati. This Italian term means: “Stubborn” I like to make the distinction with contemporary music, … Ostinato: Boost Your Songwriting Creativity
Musical Storytelling In Improvisation
Playing A Guitar Solo is Like “Talking With Your Guitar”. In the beginning stages, students of improvisation tend to solo like they are trying to constantly reinvent the wheel. They constantly try to keep coming up with ever new phrases and new melodic ideas, which makes the solo sound like it’s “meandering about” without ever … Musical Storytelling In Improvisation
The Folky Beginner Chords
The First Chords You Learn On A Guitar. These are the first chords every guitar player typically starts with when learning guitar. I tend to call these chords the “folky beginner chords”, just to give them a name, but to be fair: these chords are neither “folky” nor “beginner chords”. Besides folk music: you can … The Folky Beginner Chords
The Art of Writing Great Melodies
The Art of Writing Great Melodies This blog is a continuation from previously published blogs on songwriting which you can read when you click on the titles How To Write Chords To Your Melody Lines, Some Scale And Chord Theory and Understanding How Chord Progressions Work. I wanted to dedicate this new blog to the … The Art of Writing Great Melodies
Constant Structure: A Chord Idea that Leads to Great Songs
What is Constant Structure? Constant structure is a harmonization (and performance) concept in which you harmonize each individual note in a melody with exactly the same chord structure underneath each note in that melody. In other words: You harmonize a melody (meaning: the focus is on the melody, NOT on the chord progression), with EXACTLY … Constant Structure: A Chord Idea that Leads to Great Songs
