An old game show "Name that Tune" tested people's ability to remember old songs. Another game show could be "Name that BAND." Musicians tend to have favorite chords and progressions and sound mix textures.
If you want to bring amazing FRESHNESS into your songs,
Don't just start a song with a melody:
STOP.... LISTEN... Not just a cliche:
Go outdoors and listen to sounds:
The birds, the wind in the trees, traffic noise, the overhead jets...
the cadence of people talking and laughing.
Go indoors and listen: Washing machine swirling, the fan's spin,
the undulation waves of the refrigerator motor....
Drum out beats with your hand on any surface-- from your lap (low beat) to
crunchy leaves.
Sometimes REST awhile in the percussion of the
world around you.... and wait for the melody
to come into your head.
If you want to bring amazing FRESHNESS into your songs,
Don't just start a song with a melody:
STOP.... LISTEN... Not just a cliche:
Go outdoors and listen to sounds:
The birds, the wind in the trees, traffic noise, the overhead jets...
the cadence of people talking and laughing.
Go indoors and listen: Washing machine swirling, the fan's spin,
the undulation waves of the refrigerator motor....
Drum out beats with your hand on any surface-- from your lap (low beat) to
crunchy leaves.
Sometimes REST awhile in the percussion of the
world around you.... and wait for the melody
to come into your head.
EXAMPLE:
Combinatoric Waves Peace
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SONG HISTORY:
Ocean waves were crashing
against a pointed rock barrier, coming from two directions. One day
I noticed something “different” in the sound as I stood by the
water at dawn. I closed my eyes... listened... realized that
to my
left, the water was like the usual 4/4 time with a heavy hit on the
rocks as “Count 1” and a lighter hit on “count 3” and then
repeating the pattern at the end of each 4 counts.
BUT -- on my RIGHT side,
the water took longer between “count 3” and the heavy repeat on
Count 1.
The Music of the Water was in 5/4 time as it hit the rock
barrier at a different angle.
I charted out what I
heard in the sand, and later created a spreadsheet to study my
observation. After talking with a couple of mathematicians, I
learned that the word for this combination of two different series is
“Combinatoric”.
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