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Songwriting, Lyric Writing, Creating Writing Software

Songwriting, Lyric Writing, Creating Writing Software

GVOX | Bring Music to Life Why does Taylor Swift write so many one-note melodies? Media playback is unsupported on your device It's easy to get distracted by her celebrity, but Taylor Swift is a once-in-a-generation songwriter. From the very beginning, she's displayed a knack for melody and storytelling that most artists never master. Take, for example, her first US number one, Our Song. Written for a high school talent show, it's a fairly typical tale of teenage romance until the final lines: "I grabbed a pen / And an old napkin / And I wrote down our song." That's smart, self-assured songwriting for someone who wasn't old enough to vote. But Our Song also establishes another of Taylor's trademarks: The one-note melody. These static vocal lines, where she sings at one pitch for a sustained period, crop up on all of her her albums - and increase in frequency when she switches lanes from country to pop. You can hear it on all four songs she's released ahead of her new record, Reputation, which comes out this Friday. Image copyright Getty Images

New Products for Songwriters and Musicians featuring what's new from our sponsors and more. SoundCloud adds new recording and editing features to Android and iPhone apps SoundCloud has released new versions of its mobile apps that expand the recording and editing powers on Android phones and Apple iOS devices. Both the iPhone and Android versions of the app support the new recording features, but there are a couple of features not yet available universally. New app features include:~Pause & resume recording -- ideal for taking voice notes, recording song ideas, or splicing together longer audio segments. The current version of Mixcraft is version 6, made by Acoustica. Mixcraft 6 is a powerful multitrack recording application for Windows. It comes packed with thousands of music loops and dozens of audio effects and virtual instruments. You can record and create an unlimited number of audio and MIDI tracks. iRig PRE iRig MIC Cast iRig MIC Cast is the ultra-compact, portable voice recording microphone. And video here >> AmpliTube iRig

Audio Production Without Limits Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley to receive MPG's Award for Outstanding Contribution to UK Music Langer and Winstanley have credits on many classic albums, from Elvis Costello’s Punch The Clock, to Dexys Midnight Runners’ Too-Rye-Ay and Bush’s best-selling album Sixteen Stone. Production duo Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley are to receive the top accolade at the 2018 Music Producers Guild Awards - the PPL Presents The MPG Award For Outstanding Contribution To UK Music in recognition of their music production work over the last 40 years. Their first venture into co-production was for Madness and resulted in the band’s 1979 debut album One Step Beyond, which was recorded and mixed in less than four weeks and spent over a year in the UK album charts. This inaugurated a partnership that has resulted in numerous hit records for artists such as David Bowie (for whom the pair produced the Live Aid single Dancing In the Street), Morrissey, The Teardrop Explodes, Catatonia, They Might Be Giants and Hot House Flowers. www.mpg.org.uk

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Cantabile 'Stranger Things': Meet the Band Behind Show's Creepy, Nostalgic Score No part of acclaimed miniseries Stranger Things activates the nostalgia circuits like its soundtrack of eerie, droning analog synths – an alien transmission from the VHS era to the Netflix generation. The score comes courtesy of Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, two of the four members of Austin soundscapists Survive, who are set to release their second album, RR7349, on Relapse Records in September. Survive currently ranks as Austin's most visible group in a scene full of retro-leaning synth acts like Troller, Ssleeperhold, Flatliner and Xander Harris. Austin synth store Switched On opened in 2010, and has become a community hub for this explosion of local dark-ambient mood-mushers who tinker with patch cords and resistors instead of guitars and turntables. When did you first get into analog synths? Do you still use that thing for your music? Does he have a name? Collecting synths is kind of an expensive hobby. You work at Austin synth store Switched On, right?

Music Theory: Chord Progressions The number of ways chords can go together to produce new and interesting sounds is nearly infinite. Musicians use their intuition and experience to arrange chords in ways that move the music along. This notion of movement is important to understanding how to compose and improvise a piece of music. Chord progressions are what gives a piece of music its harmonic movement. Harmonic Movement Usually the interplay between chords in a piece of music creates the feeling of movement and change. Some chord combinations sound uplifting, others sound somber, and some sound like ocean waves. Most pieces of music tend to first establish a feeling of stability, depart from it, create tension, then return to the feeling of stability. Progression Formulas The way chords are placed one after the other in a piece of music is called a chord progression. Roman numerals are used to indicate the chords in a progression. The Roman numerals in a chord progression formula signify the triad form of the chord.

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