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Chapter 7
How Beat, Pulse, Meter, Tempo, and Rhythm REALLY Work
Chapter 8
How Phrase and Form REALLY Work
Chapter 9
How Melody and Melody-harmony Integration REALLY Work
Chapter 10
How Lyrics REALLY Work
Chapter 11
How Repertoire,
Signature, and Performance REALLY Work
Chapter
12
How the Music Business and Music Entrepreneurship REALLY Work
Appendix 1
Roedy Black’s Chord Progression Chart
Appendix
2
Useful Websites and Resources
Appendix 3
Winners of the Moose-Nobel Prize in Music, 1901 - 2006
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CHAPTER 7:
How Beat, Pulse, Meter, Tempo,
and Rhythm REALLY Work
7.1
EVOLUTION,
THE BRAIN,
AND RHYTHM
-
Where Rhythm Comes From: the
Time-keeper in Your Brain
-
Evolutionary Perspectives on the Auditory System, Sense of
Balance (Vestibular System), Bipedalism, and Locomotion in Humans
7.2
YOUR
BRAIN’S EVOLVED
MEMORY
FUNCTIONS
-
Music and Memory Limitations
-
Short-term and Working Memory
The Phonological Loop
Working Memory
-
“Chunking” to the Rescue (More
or Less)
-
Long-term Declarative
(Explicit) Memory
Episodic Memory
Semantic Memory
-
Long-term Procedural
(Implicit) Memory
-
Repetition and Memory in Music
7.3
BEAT VS
PULSE
-
How Unmeasured Music Differs
from Measured Music
-
How Your Brain “Predicts” the
Beat in Measured Music
-
How Beat Differs from Pulse
Beat
Pulse
How Habituation Works
7.4
TYPES OF
PULSE
7.5
METER AND
TIME
SIGNATURE
-
What Meter Is and How it Works
Pulse Chunking
-
How Beat, Pulse, and Meter
Relate to Each Other
-
How Time Signature Works: Merely a Silent Notational
Convenience
7.6
VARIETIES OF
METER
-
Types of Simple Meter
-
Types of Compound Meter
-
Types of Combined Meter
Important Note on Time
Signature and Combined
Meter
How Double Skipple Pulse Works
in Hip-hop
Irregular Meter
Pink Floyd’s “Money”: How and
Why it Works Brilliantly
Relative Popularity of the
Four Types of Meter
Combined
Quadruple: Not the Most Common, but the
Coolest Meter
7.7
TEMPO
-
What Tempo Is and How it Works
-
How Tempo Affects Meter
-
Four Tempo Ranges in Terms of Human Locomotion
-
How to Make Slow Tempo Seem
Fast (And Vice-versa)
-
Emotional Effects of Tempo
7.8
RHYTHM, THE
SOUL OF
MELODY
-
How to Tell Meter from Rhythm
-
How Simple Ratios Work in Marking the Flow of Time: The
Law of Simple Multiples or Fractions of the Underlying Beat
-
How Accents “Automatically” Communicate Beat, Pulse, and
Meter
-
Understanding Ostinato, Your Close Personal Friend
-
Superimposed Ostinatos in
Hip-hop and Dance/Electronica
-
Keep Your Bass Player and Fire Your Drummer (If You
Have To Choose)
-
Emotional Effects of Various Kinds of Rhythm and
Articulation
7.9
METER AND
RHYTHM IN
POPULAR VS
“CLASSICAL”
MUSIC
-
One Big Difference: Big Beat
-
Other Big Differences: Improvisation, Syncopation, and
Polyrhythm
Cross Rhythm
-
Polyrhythm: Breaking the Law of Simple Multiples or
Fractions of the Underlying Beat
7.10
METER,
TEMPO, AND
RHYTHM:
UNITY AND
VARIETY
-
Optimizing Unity and Variety in Meter, Tempo, and Rhythm
-
The Wundt Curve of Unity and
Variety
CHAPTER 8:
How Phrase and Form REALLY
Work
8.1
DISTINGUISHING
BETWEEN
VM
(VOCAL-MELODIC)
PHRASES AND
STRUCTURAL
PHRASES
8.2
WHY
BINARY
STRUCTURE
IS THE
SOUL OF
GREAT
POPULAR
SONG
FORM
-
Binary Structure at Every Level
-
Chunking and “Repetition of Repetition of Repetition”:
Coping with the Limits of Short-term/Working Memory
-
Techniques of Variation Within Binary Structure
-
Chunking and Structural Unit
Size
-
Relationships Between VM Phrase Beginnings and Structural
Phrase Beginnings
1.
Beginning the VM Phrase Before Beat One of Bar One
(Anacrusis, the
Default)
2. Beginning the VM Phrase
On Beat One of Bar One
3. Beginning the VM Phrase After Beat One of Bar One
-
Metrical Position vs Pitch in Melody and Speech: The
Accent-matching Law
8.3
OTHER
MATTERS OF
PHRASE AND
FORM
-
VM Phrase Limitations That Do Not Apply to
Instrumentally-played Melodic Phrases
-
AABA and All That
Returning vs Continuing Form
“Standard” vs “Classic”
-
Main Forms in “Serious” Western Music of the Common
Practice Period (1600 - 1900)
8.4
FORM:
UNITY,
VARIETY,
AND
EMOTIONAL
IMPACT
CHAPTER 9:
How Melody and
Melody-harmony Integration
REALLY Work
9.1
EVOLUTION,
MUSIC,
AND
EMOTIONAL
AROUSAL
Emotional Reactions as Responses to Surprise or Change
Avoiding
Habituation
Everybody’s on Drugs: Natural, Brain-manufactured Drugs
9.2
MELODY,
MEMORY,
AND
MEMES
-
How Songs Function as Powerful Memes, Replicating
and Mutating Like Genes
-
Why Most of the World’s Brilliant Tunes Have Not Yet Been
Composed
9.3
MELODIC
UNITY AND
COHERENCE
-
Establishing Tonality with Melody
Modulation
in “Street Fighting Man”
-
Melodic Coherence and Intelligibility
-
Importance of a Practical
Vocal Range
9.4 TUNE AND
CHORD
PROGRESSION
-
Melodic vs Harmonic Force of
Intervals
-
Relative Speed of Melody Against Harmony: Emotional Effects
1. Harmony Moves Slower than Melody (“Normal” or
Default)
2. Harmony Moves Faster than Melody
3. Harmony and Melody Move at the Same Speed
-
Cadence in Its Melodic Context
Cadence,
Continuation, and Conclusiveness
Masculine vs Feminine Cadence
9.5
VM PHRASES
WITHIN
STRUCTURAL
PHRASES: FROM
WEILL AND
BRECHT TO
BOWIE AND
BECK
9.6
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#1): DON’T
LET
YOUR
COMFORT
ZONE
SELECT
CERTAIN
SONG
ELEMENTS
-
Why Pre-selecting Some Elements Works Better than Letting
Your Comfort Zone Select Them
-
The Four Pre-selections
1. Pre-select Meter
2. Pre-select Tempo
3. Pre-select VM Phrase Start Point with Respect to the
First
Structural Phrase
4. Pre-select Mode or Scale Type
-
Aim for Variety in Your
Pre-selection Combinations
-
Sketch Your Four Pre-selections on Paper
9.7
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#2): RECOGNIZE THE
PRIMACY OF
RHYTHM
PATTERNS
9.8
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#3): USE
SEQUENCES
9.9
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#4): USE
THE SAME
RHYTHM
PATTERN
WITH MULTIPLE
MELODIES
9.10
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#5): MIX
UP
STEPS,
LEAPS,
AND REPEATS
-
Stepwise (Conjunct) Motion
-
Leapwise (Disjunct) Motion
-
Repeated Tone Motion
When to
Make a Point of Using Repeated Tones
-
Mixing Melodic Motion
9.11
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#6): MIX
UP
NOTE
VALUES
9.12
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#7): USE
MODULATION
9.13
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#8): USE
NON-CHORD
(NON-HARMONIC)
TONES
ON ACCENTED
BEATS
-
Why Non-chord (Non-harmonic) Tones on Accented Beats Light
up a Tune
-
Types
of Non-chord Tones
Unaccented
Neighboring Tone—Auxiliary (Weak)
Accented
Neighboring Tone—Appoggiatura (Strong)
Passing Tone (Weak)
Suspension (Strong)
Anticipation (Weak)
9.14
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#9): USE
MODAL
SCALES
WITH DIATONIC
CHORDS
9.15
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
TUNES
(#10): INCORPORATE
A (REPEATING)
MELODIC
CLIMAX
-
Melodic Contour and Character
-
Melodic Climax: It’s Not Like in the Movies
-
No Need to Obsess About Where
to Position the Climax
-
Saturation Tones Dissipate Melodic Tension
-
Melismas May Dissipate Melodic
Tension, Too
-
Emotional Effects of Melodic Contour
9.16
PUTTING
IT
ALL
TOGETHER:
A
SUGGESTED
APPROACH TO
COMPOSING
TUNES
-
If the Net’s Down, There’s No Structure, No Comprehension
... and No Emotional
Connection
-
Where to Begin? With
Pre-selections
-
Next: Original Rhythm Patterns
-
Next: Original Melodic
Phrases—No Lyrics (Yet)
-
Next: Original VM Phrases (Words and Music)
Pre-selections and Set-up
Rapping and Accent-matching
Adding Melody and Harmony
9.17
MELODY:
UNITY,
VARIETY,
AND
EMOTIONAL
IMPACT
CHAPTER 10:
How Lyrics REALLY Work
10.1
EVOLUTION AND
LANGUAGE:
THE
BIOLOGY OF
LYRICS
-
Great Lyrics: An Organizing Principle
-
Symbol-Making and Symbol-Processing
-
“I Heard It Through The Grapevine”: The Power of Gossip
10.2
LYRICS IN
SEMANTIC
SPACE:
THE
CENTRAL
IMPORTANCE OF
EPA
-
The Problem of Pinning Down Connotative Meaning
-
Towards a Solution: Attitude Measurement
-
Linking Words with Attitude: Charles E. Osgood’s “Semantic
Space”
10.3
LYRICAL
EMOTION:
CHOICE OF
WORDS
-
Content-words vs Function-words
-
Some Guidelines On Word Choice
by Part of Speech
Verbs
Nouns
Adverbs
Adjectives
Prepositions
-
Coming Up:
10 Powerful Lyrical Techniques You Can Use in Songs with Melodies and in Rap
10.4
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#1): USE
FOUR
ESSENTIAL
TOOLS
10.5
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#2): USE
A HIGH
PROPORTION
OF PERSONAL
WORDS
10.6
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#3): USE
A HIGH
PROPORTION
OF PERSONAL
SENTENCES
10.7
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#4): PREFER
CONCRETE
SYMBOLS
AND IMAGERY
TO ABSTRACT
IDEAS
AND CONCEPTS
10.8
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#5): SAIL
BEYOND THE
HORIZON OF
LOGIC AND THE
REAL
WORLD—BUT
USE THE
WUNDT
CURVE
TO CHART
YOUR
WAY
10.9
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#6): KNOW
HOW
TO PROPORTION
UNIQUE
CONTENT-WORDS,
FUNCTION-WORDS,
AND REPEATED
WORDS
10.10
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#7): LIVE
FOR PARALLEL
CONSTRUCTION,
DIE FOR
PARALLEL
CONSTRUCTION
-
Differences Between Musical and Lyrical Structural Units
-
Parallel Construction for Emphasis and Memorability
-
Parallel Construction Verse to
Verse, Chorus to Chorus
-
Parallel Construction Within a Verse or Chorus
-
Parallel Construction in Unparalleled Speeches
10.11
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#8): FIND
TIME
TO RHYME
-
Why Song Lyrics—Especially Rap Lyrics—Need Rhyme, but
Poems Don’t (Necessarily)
-
“Truth” in Rhyme
-
Rhyme Schemes
-
Kinds of Rhyme
-
Rhyme by Similarity of Sound
1. True Rhyme, aka Full or Perfect Rhyme
2. Near Rhyme, aka Assonance, Vowel Rhyme,
Imperfect
Rhyme, Off Rhyme
3. Identical Rhyme
4. Wrenched Rhyme
-
Rhyme by Syllable-number and Accent
5. Masculine Rhyme
6. Feminine Rhyme, aka Multi-syllable Rhyme
7. Multi-word Rhyme
8. Mosaic Rhyme
-
Rhyme by Location in a Phrase or Line
9. End Rhyme
10.
Internal Rhyme
11. Leonine Rhyme
12. Beginning Rhyme
-
How to Use an Ordinary Rhyming Dictionary to Find Millions
of
Multi-syllable and Multi-word Vowel Rhymes
10.12
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#9): ADHERE
TO THE ACCENT-MATCHING
LAW
(FOR
THE MOST
PART)
Accent-matching by Number of Syllables
Single-syllable-word Accent-matching
Two-syllable-word Accent-matching
Three-syllable-word Accent-matching
Four-or-more-syllable-word Accent-matching
Compound Words
More
on Rap Accent-matching
Know Where the Bar Lines Are—Even if Your Listeners
Don’t Know
Accent-matching in Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”
Use A Blank Structural Phrase Grid
10.13
10 TECHNIQUES FOR
CREATING
EMOTIONALLY
POWERFUL
LYRICS
(#10): DON’T
HESITATE
TO REVISE
10.14
PUTTING
IT
ALL
TOGETHER:
A
SUGGESTED
APPROACH TO
COMPOSING
LYRICS
-
The Lyric-writing Process and
the Wundt Curve
-
The End of Writer’s Block
-
Where to Begin? Outside Your Comfort Zone: Use RIT
to
Build a Seed List of Independent High-EPA Words
Customize Your RIT
How to Build Your Seed List
An Emotionally Feeble (Low-EPA) Seed List
-
Next: Use Your Seed List to Build a List of Independent
Phrases and “Events”
Next: Use Your Phrase List to Build a List of Independent
Rhyming Couplets
How to Work Rhyme Into Couplets Using Phrases You’ve
Already Written
Couplets and Parallel Construction
The Content of Couplets
Next: Forget About It; Let Your Unconscious Mind Work It
Next: Be Surprised; Finish Your Lyric
Next: Title It
Next: Set It To Notes or Beats
Repeat as Often as You Want To
10.15
LYRICS:
UNITY,
VARIETY,
AND
EMOTIONAL
IMPACT
CHAPTER 11:
How Repertoire,
Signature, and
Performance REALLY Work
11.1
REPERTOIRE
-
What It Takes to Break Away from the Pack
-
You Have No Serious Competition
1. Songwriting Skills
2. Signature Sound and Style
3. Ambition
4. Music Business Knowledge and Skills
-
Do Not
Co-write Unless You Absolutely Have To
Rappers: Break Away from Producers—Do Your Own
Beatmaking
-
Stop Performing Your Own Songs if They Don’t Cut It
11.2
YOUR
SIGNATURE
SOUND AND
STYLE
-
How Signature Sound Differs from Signature Style
Signature Sound
Signature Style
-
Why You Need to Create a Signature Sound and Style
-
Elements of Your Signature Sound and Style
-
Developing Your Signature: Recognize Mimicry
-
Developing Your Signature: Locate Your Comfort Zone on the
“Map” of Popular Music
What if You Did Not Find Any Song Matches on the
GSSL?
-
Developing Your Signature: Use the GSSL to Get Out of Your
Comfort Zone
-
Developing Your Signature: Concentrate on Your Vocal—Not
Instrumental—Sound and Style
-
Vocal Technique for Singers and Rappers: 10 Guidelines
1.
Clear Your Throat
2.
Keep Your Jaw, Neck, Shoulder, and Abdominal
Muscles Relaxed
3. Keep Your Head Slightly Down
4. Keep Your Lungs Full, Like Inflated Balloons
5. As Much as Possible, Keep Your Mouth Shut
6. Recognize Your “Chest Voice” and Develop It
7. Recognize Your “Head Voice” and Develop It
8. Recognize Your Falsetto and Develop It
9. Slur Notes, Not Words
10. Warm Up
-
The Instructional Value of the
Idol TV Singing Contest
11.3
PERFORMING
LIVE
-
Mental Practice
-
Some Common Performing Problems
-
Kill Tedious Stage Patter
-
Intelligibility Matters: If They Bury Your Lyrics in the Mix, You
Lose
Why Sound Engineers Murder Vocals
How to Deal with Instrument-heavy Live Sound
What if They Insist on Instrument-dominant Mixing?
-
Confidence Is Everything: Dealing with Performance
Anxiety/Stage Fright
What About Beta Blockers?
-
Your Audience of One
11.4
PERFORMING IN THE
STUDIO
-
Why Your Recorded Voice Sounds Different from the Way
You Hear Your Voice
-
Cameras and Recorders Don’t Lie: Video Your Rehearsals
-
Recorded Vocals Matter Far More than Instrumental Tracks
-
Avoid Layers of Overdubs and Effects: Play It Live and Serve
the Song
CHAPTER 12:
How the Music Business and
Music Entrepreneurship REALLY
Work
12.1
STARTERS
-
Sectors of the Music Business
-
To Reiterate: The Song Is the Currency of the Music
Business
-
Kill Ugly Attitude
-
Read, Read, Read, Study, Study, Study
-
The Music Business: A Male Bastion
12.2
YOUR
PUBLIC
IMAGE
Image
and Reputation
Your Persona
Fame vs Celebrity
How to Create a Stage Name
It’s Your Name and Career That Matter—Not Your Band’s
Name and Career
Your Own Personal Drug Problem
12.3
YOUR
OWN
LABEL
-
10 Reasons to Do It Yourself
1. Control
2. Freedom of Association
3. Speed
4. Profit
5. Simplicity
6. Guarantee of Getting Signed
7. A Music Business Education
8. Self Confidence
9. Career Longevity
10. Integrity
-
Build Your Own Studio; Learn Recording and Mixing
-
Are You Ready to Tour? Do You Have Management? An
Agent?
-
File Sharing: Your Best Promotional Tool
-
Your Power Over Record Labels
-
How to Handle Music Industry Lawyers
-
14 Independent Songwriter-Performers and Bands Worth
Studying
12.4
INDIE
LABELS AND
MAJOR
LABELS
-
Why Most Bands and Songwriter-Performers Don’t Get Label
Deals
The Labels Don’t Have Tin Ears; Songwriters Have Tin
Pens
-
How To Get Signed
-
Buzz, Branding, and (Mostly) Blind Dumb Luck: What You
Need to Become a Big Time Rock/Hip-Hop/Country Star
Example of the Buzz (or Bandwagon) Effect
Example of the Brand Loyalty Effect
Buzz and Payola
-
The Future: Hit? Song? Science?
APPENDIX 1:
Roedy Black’s Chord
Progression Chart
APPENDIX 2:
Useful Websites and Resources
APPENDIX 3:
Winners of the
Moose Nobel Prize in Music, 1901 - 2006
CHAPTER NOTES
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REFERENCES
(FREE)
INDEX
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TABLE
OF
CONTENTS PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Top
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