Songwriting basics and tips 19: Modes – Atmospheric Aeolian
All the ingredients of a minor drama – watchtowers, riders, moonlight & storms: it has to be Aeolian!
Bob Leslie
Songwriting basics and tips 18: Modes – Moody Mixolydian
Mixolydian: mean, modey, and magnificent!
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 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!
Songwriting basics and tips 4: Rhyme Part 2 – The Nature of Rhyme … and Rhymes that Don’t
How do you get near to a rhyme? Buy it flowers? The secret is revealed!
Songwriting basics and tips 3 (continued)
Music hath charms to bend the knotted oak.
Continuing from Blog 3, the song lyric has developed a tune.
Look out, songwright at work!
Bob Leslie 