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Respect The Form of a Song

By oneoverphi

Where has the time gone? Between work, fam­ily, and  out­side projects I’m afraid I’ve neglected to post. Well it’s time to rem­edy this. The past two months have been quite busy for me. I’ve been writ­ing up a storm of songs, though few are com­plete. There are miss­ing lyrics here, unfin­ished arrange­ments there, and now... »

Redeem Your Lyrics With a Memopad

By oneoverphi

I am con­stantly jot­ting down lines on any scrap that I can get my hands on, receipts, envelopes, nap­kins. My pock­ets would be stuffed with gems, which I would invari­ably lose. To rem­edy the dis­si­pa­tion of my for­tune I invested in a cheap memo-pad. True I could have sprung for a mole­sk­ine. I’ve used them before and quite enjoy the... »

Get Started Building Your Own Instrument

By oneoverphi

It’s time to pull out your tools. Sharpen your chis­els and your mind for build­ing your own instru­ment. You’ll be rewarded with more than sat­is­fac­tion of a job well done, you will also get the gift of music. I’ve rounded up some links to get you started. Musicmaker’s Kits — An awe­some place for harp, dul­cimer, banjo,... »

Improve Your Songwriting With Odd Timesignatures

By oneoverphi

Four on the floor. How many songs are writ­ten in 4/4 time? It’s almost uncount­able. Since an over­whelm­ing major­ity of pop­u­lar songs are writ­ten in 4/4, the casual musi­cian whose only goal is camp­fire croon­ing need not ever come to grips with the whys and where­fores of time sig­na­ture. All one must do is... »

Odd, Unusual, and Downright Weird Instrument Links

By oneoverphi

I’m a big fan of unusual and home­brew instru­ments. In fact I’m mak­ing a cajon (also known as a box drum) right now, which I’ll post a walk-through and plans for when I’m done. For all of you that share this inter­est in the DIY­ers that add to the musi­cal may­hem in the world, I’ve assem­bled some links... »

Modal Interchange Demystified

By oneoverphi

You may have heard about modal inter­change in pass­ing, but never had it explained. If you want to know what it is then you have come to the right place. I’m going to quickly break down for you what modal inter­change is all about and what it can do for you in song­writ­ing. In... »

Microsoft Songsmith Commercial Wreaks Havoc on Psyche

By oneoverphi

I don’t know what to say, but I do know that when I watched this I died a lit­tle inside. You best see for yourself. »

Make Your Songs the Best

By oneoverphi

Do you need to take your song­writ­ing to the next level? If so then you ought to go to Bill Pere’s Song­writ­ing Tools and pick up some solid advice. Don’t let the circa ’95 web­de­sign scare you off. Scroll down a lit­tle to see a trea­sure trove of .pdf’s with great infor­ma­tion. Top­ics focus on writ­ing... »

Look to the Past For New Sounds

By oneoverphi

Ever wanted to go old-school with your instru­ments? I mean really, really old-school? Well you’re in luck my dear read­ers, I know a place where you can go back to the stone-age for your heavy rock sound ( I couldn’t resist, I’m weak ). Pale­o­planet, a site devoted to pre­his­toric tech­nol­ogy, hap­pens to have a forum sec­tion on music. Not... »

Can You Make a Record In One Month?

By oneoverphi

Go ahead … what’s stop­ping you? That’s the tag-line of The RPM Chal­lenge; a one month, one album chal­lenge in the vein of NaNoW­riMo. This takes place in Feb­ru­ary so you have a lit­tle over two weeks to get your mojo going. This is the chal­lenge: record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs... »

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