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!
Celtic music
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!
Songwriting basics and tips 3: Rhyme – Part 1
Not sure where to put the rhymes in your song? This will show you how to knit a nice rhyme pattern.
Songwriting basics and tips 2: Rhythm
Is your songwriting missing rhythm? How to put a beat in your ballad.
Bob Leslie 