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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... »

CBC Radio 2 Website">Get Your Song Onto the CBC Radio 2 Website

By oneoverphi

If you’ve got a song about a place in Canada, or the gump­tion to write one, then send it in to CBC Radio 2. This may be your chance to be fea­tured on the radio. CBC has been doing their Songquest for a few weeks now. The gist of it was that they gath­ered sug­ges­tions for places... »

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... »

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... »

Indispensible Online Music Tools, About 7 of Them

By oneoverphi

These are all great tools that you can use from your browser, and they are free. Go, enjoy, be creative! gui​taris​thelp​.com — They say “gui­tarist help”, but really these tools are use­ful for any musi­cian. Chiefly of use are the tools for find­ing scales from lists of notes or chords, and the tool to find chords... »

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... »

Introduction to the Circle Progression

By oneoverphi

The cir­cle pro­gres­sion is a pow­er­ful and often used pro­gres­sion that you can har­ness to use in your own music. In a cir­cle pro­gres­sion the root of the chords con­tin­u­ally descends by a per­fect fifth or ascends by a per­fect fourth. How fourths and fifths are related is illus­trated well by the cir­cle of fifths. In chord num­ber talk... »

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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