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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 12: Bridging the Gap …

by Bob Leslie on December 20, 2018April 12, 2019

Getting to the other side of the song!

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Songwriting basics and tips 11: Mega Melodies …

by Bob Leslie on December 13, 2018April 12, 2019

Weaving a melodic tapestry …

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Songwriting basics and tips 10: Shifting Foundations …

by Bob Leslie on December 6, 2018April 12, 2019

Down in the musical basement seeing what’s holding the house up!

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Songwriting basics and tips 9: Slipping along seamlessly …

by Bob Leslie on November 29, 2018April 12, 2019

Getting all keyed up in a smooth sort of way …

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Songwriting basics and tips 8: Ch…ch…ch…changes

by Bob Leslie on November 22, 2018April 12, 2019

Going round in circles giving five!

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Songwriting basics and tips 7: Mood Music

by Bob Leslie on November 15, 2018April 12, 2019

Minor chords can have a major impact!

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Songwriting basics and tips 6: Tuning in …

by Bob Leslie on November 8, 2018April 12, 2019

Remedies for the melody that afflicts you – getting your tune in shape for the lyric

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Songwriting basics and tips 5: Popular Rhyme Patterns

by Bob Leslie on October 30, 2018April 12, 2019

Shapes of things to come – or songs as super-models!!

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Interlude: A Seasonal Song

by Bob Leslie on October 23, 2018April 12, 2019

A song of ghaisties and ghoulies, an lang-leggity beasties, an things that gae bump in the nicht. Hallowe’en!

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