Songwriting basics and tips 19: Modes – Atmospheric Aeolian
All the ingredients of a minor drama – watchtowers, riders, moonlight & storms: it has to be Aeolian!
Scottish
Songwriting basics and tips 18: Modes – Moody Mixolydian
Mixolydian: mean, modey, and magnificent!
Songwriting basics and tips 17: Modes – Lush Lydian
Lydian – absolutely nothing to do with tattooed ladies. Well … maybe just a wee bit!
Songwriting basics and tips 16: Modes – Freaky Phrygian
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!
Songwriting basics and tips 15: Modes – Learn to Adore Dorian – the Cool Mode
Getting in the mode! The first in a series on scales you never knew existed …
Songwriting basics and tips 7: Mood Music
Minor chords can have a major impact!
Songwriting basics and tips 6: Tuning in …
Remedies for the melody that afflicts you – getting your tune in shape for the lyric
Songwriting basics and tips 5: Popular Rhyme Patterns
Shapes of things to come – or songs as super-models!!
Interlude: A Seasonal Song
A song of ghaisties and ghoulies, an lang-leggity beasties, an things that gae bump in the nicht. Hallowe’en!
Bob Leslie 