How to write TRULY original music Pt 1
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- How truly original music is written, whether it's classical, jazz, or pop.
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Great video. I started writing songs out of nowhere after suffering a TBI in a car accident in 2009. I’ve written nearly 500 songs since. I never had any training, and never really knew about music theory. My focus is melody. Once I have a melody I try to determine what the melody means in words. I listen to lots of Classical and jazz, in addition to 60’s-70’s songs. I never played a cover song. I taught myself keyboard and guitar by writing songs. I developed my own guitar style and play an Ovation Nylon string guitar.
Hey, I used to have one of those! Great guitar to write songs with. Most of the best musicians in all styles are self-taught. For example, Paverotti could barely read music, although the teaching of singing is done very differently in Italy. It's the reverse of N. America, which is mostly theory, harmony, counterpoint, history, with a single class in voice. In Italy it's almost all practical- sing, sing, sing, every chance you get. Some of the best chord- and tune-smiths I know are self-taught. Duke Ellington was self-taught, which they referred to as an "autodidact" in those days.
Teaching yourself by playing is certainly the way to go. It helps you learn to "live inside the music", as the saying goes. There are things you learn by going that route that you'll never learn in a classroom.
Though I've taught rudiments, theory, harmony, counterpoint, for almost fifty years, I prefer to lay the technical stuff before the student and let them take what's useful to them from there. I mention a lot of stuff they'll probably never use, but little bits tend to be useful, such as the relationship between chords and melody, especially when it comes to reharmonisation, or taking the same old same old and throwing unusual chords at it until something sticks. Learning to experiment can be taught to some extent, but it's more useful to learn to build a career on it.