This week:
This week we started an awesome song!!
Abbie came extremely prepared with song ideas, lyrics, and melodies to contribute to the lesson and start us off on a great foot!
Starting with already formed thoughts or written lyrics (as opposed to more broad ideas), helped steer our lesson in the direction of editing before we got into our new song.
We worked on:
Song structure: Where to change rhythms and melodies, where each part of the song comes in, what each part of the song does.
Verse 1: Wild Card
The first verse can say whatever we want. It can be a complete 180 to our chorus, it can set up the chorus if we want it to, it can start by explaining what we're going to be singing about before we get into the subject.
The example that we used in our lesson was Carrie Underwood's "This is just a dream"
Verse 1: Sets up a wedding.
Pre-chorus: Set up
The pre-chorus sets up what we need to know before we hear the chorus.
Pre-chorus (of "Just a dream"): Sets up the Death/breakup in the chorus with "flowers fell out of her hand"
Chorus: Meat and Potatoes
The chorus says what we want the message of the song to be - it talks about the actual subject.
Chorus ("just a dream"): Tells about her not being able to get married because her fiance has died.
Hook: The hook puts a bow on it all - saying what we've been explaining the whole time.
Hook ('Just a dream"): Tells how she can't believe that it's all happening and though the beginning of the song started out as a dream.. the actual experience is more of a nightmare - but still surreal.
Melodies: picking out a tune from a chord progression, hearing different tunes in the same progression
Song cadence : matching lyrics, syllables, and rhythms to melodies
Our song:
Great Job Abbie! See you soon!
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