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SONGWRITING BLOG

SORRY AGAIN!
As of now (14th March 2020), I’m writing and recording an album, also moving house (with next abode not firmed up yet), so the blog is on hiatus for the next couple of months or so.

I’m also thinking of framing the next section of the blog as a practical songwriting demonstration in which I take an idea and turn it into a song, showing all steps in the process.

So, I’m looking for ideas for traditional-style songs – folk-tales, legends, fairy-tales, history, politics, humour, and, of course, love-stories that go right, and love-stories that go wrong!

If any songs end up good enough to put on an album, whoever came up with the suggestions will be credited on the cover. If the idea is reasonably detailed, all your own, and those details end up in a song that gets recorded, you’ll get a co-writer credit.

I’ve created this email address just for song ideas: bobleslie50@yahoo.com
If I’m snowed under with hundreds of ideas, I’ll only be able to acknowledge the ones I intend to try to develop. Please don’t think me rude if I don’t reply, life is too short!

I shall return! Bob.

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Bob Leslie is a Scottish Traditional Songwriter & Singer

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Songwriting basics and tips 21: Mix in Some Melodic Minor

by Bob Leslie on February 28, 2019April 12, 2019

Make that minor more melodic! It’ll help to sharpen up your game!

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Bob Leslie, Celtic music, Scottish, songwriter, songwriting, Traditional

Songwriting basics and tips 20: Modes – Outlandish Locrian

by Bob Leslie on February 21, 2019April 12, 2019

It’s loopy, it’s loony, it’s Locrian!

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Bob Leslie, Celtic music, Scottish, songwriter, songwriting, Traditional

Songwriting basics and tips 19: Modes – Atmospheric Aeolian

by Bob Leslie on February 14, 2019April 12, 2019

All the ingredients of a minor drama – watchtowers, riders, moonlight & storms: it has to be Aeolian!

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Bob Leslie, Scottish, songwriter, songwriting, Traditional

Songwriting basics and tips 18: Modes – Moody Mixolydian

by Bob Leslie on January 30, 2019April 12, 2019

Mixolydian: mean, modey, and magnificent!

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Bob Leslie, Celtic music, Scottish, songwriter, songwriting, Traditional

Songwriting basics and tips 17: Modes – Lush Lydian

by Bob Leslie on January 24, 2019April 12, 2019

Lydian – absolutely nothing to do with tattooed ladies. Well … maybe just a wee bit!

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Bob Leslie, Scottish, songwriter, songwriting, Traditional, Uncategorized

Songwriting basics and tips 16: Modes – Freaky Phrygian

by Bob Leslie on January 17, 2019April 12, 2019

Phrygian – more than just a funny French hat, it’s a kind of strange musical mode used by the Clash, Jefferson Airplane, Love,Miles Davis, and flamenco!

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Bob Leslie, Scottish, songwriter, songwriting, Traditional, Uncategorized

Songwriting basics and tips 15: Modes – Learn to Adore Dorian – the Cool Mode

by Bob Leslie on January 10, 2019April 12, 2019

Getting in the mode! The first in a series on scales you never knew existed …

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Songwriting basics and tips 14: Story Time

by Bob Leslie on January 3, 2019April 12, 2019

Telling it like it was … building a narrative ballad

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Songwriting basics and tips 13: Set a Hook to Catch a Fish …

by Bob Leslie on December 27, 2018April 12, 2019

Reel ’em in with a good hook!

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