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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2013 8:13:03 GMT -5
I personally prefer the keyboard/piano when I'm composing a melody. Now there are times I just run through chords.
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Post by razzgospel on Apr 20, 2013 7:02:05 GMT -5
I rarely play an instrument when I am writing a song. I don't think I've written more than a half a dozen songs in my life, playing an istrument, and I've been writing songs since the late fifties. That doesn't mean that I don't hear an chord progression or a melody from another song. Everything I've ever listenedc to in my life is n the well I draw inspiration from. I just rarely need an instrument to draw the melody from the well. In recent years, most of the songs I write come to me when I'm driving. Sometimes the melody has recognizable resemblance to something I've heard. and at other times it may be years later when I recognize the fragment of another melody in a song I've written. Here's one of my songs that I wrote while driving, that came unusually quickly... about five minutes. There are lines in here that probably came from Way Down Town by Doc Watson, and there's a line that probably comes from a line in the folk song, The Fox (Old Mother Flipper-Flopper jumped out of bed, threw open the window and stuck out her head,) and the chord changes are part of where my music comes from. Uncle Willie's in the Sheets: Words and music copyrighted by Jerry Rasmussen: www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=8413344&q=hi&newref=1
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2013 3:27:47 GMT -5
I rarely play an instrument when I am writing a song. I don't think I've written more than a half a dozen songs in my life, playing an istrument, and I've been writing songs since the late fifties. That doesn't mean that I don't hear an chord progression or a melody from another song. Everything I've ever listenedc to in my life is n the well I draw inspiration from. I just rarely need an instrument to draw the melody from the well. In recent years, most of the songs I write come to me when I'm driving. Sometimes the melody has recognizable resemblance to something I've heard. and at other times it may be years later when I recognize the fragment of another melody in a song I've written. Here's one of my songs that I wrote while driving, that came unusually quickly... about five minutes. There are lines in here that probably came from Way Down Town by Doc Watson, and there's a line that probably comes from a line in the folk song, The Fox (Old Mother Flipper-Flopper jumped out of bed, threw open the window and stuck out her head,) and the chord changes are part of where my music comes from. Uncle Willie's in the Sheets: Words and music copyrighted by Jerry Rasmussen: www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=8413344&q=hi&newref=1Great tune Jerry. That surely has the air of an old English Folk Ballad. smiley-eatdrink004
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Post by razzgospel on Apr 25, 2013 18:55:41 GMT -5
An old English folk ballad filtered through Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley... I are an administratur and I don't even know how to spell it. :-)
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Post by sarge on May 9, 2013 23:18:45 GMT -5
classical guitar always. Why a classical guitar, you ask? All I have is a classical guitar. I got stuck on classical guitars back in the 60's when folk music was popular.
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2013 14:58:13 GMT -5
classical guitar always. Why a classical guitar, you ask? All I have is a classical guitar. I got stuck on classical guitars back in the 60's when folk music was popular. I can see how the classical guitar would be great for writing a song. It has all of the great harmonics and subharmonics and really enhances the intonation. Good choice Sarge.
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Post by sarge on May 15, 2013 21:28:16 GMT -5
I haven't played a regular electric guitar since the mid 60's and the neck was too narrow for me. I did play electric bass in a rock and roll band back then. Only one member of that band went on to make a living in music and he has done very well as a song writer and producer.
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