Hi! I’m Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com.
We’re going to talk about intermediate theory
concepts. We’re going to start with talking
about the basic song writing ideas. Now, this
is song writing as appose to composition,
so we’re not talking about instrumental
composition. I just want to mention briefly
that when you write a song there’s 3 basic
areas. There’s the lyric, there’s the
melody, and there’s harmony, which harmony
is the chorus the song is based on. The melody
is the most important line, but with that
regard to weather it has words or not. So
if I said da da da da da da da. That’s the
melody but there’s not lyric. That’s Somewhere
over the rainbow. We don’t know if I’m
saying I love sandwiches often. We don’t
know what I’m talking about but we can observe
that melody, decide if we like it or don’t
like it. Okay, so the lyric should be able
to exist as a poem that we can read it, and
without reference to the music, say that is
an interesting or unique or weird or very
direct or whatever. The melody, like I said
existing without a lyric, and the way to observe
that or to critique it is to either play it
or hear it yourself done by a trumpet or another
instrument. Would that be pretty or attractive
or aggressive with those kinds of things?
