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		<title>Songwriting: What came first the music or the lyrics?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Songs have been around since the dawn of man, with old folk songs in many ancient civilizations. With a song comes a songwriter and with this comes the art and skill of songwriting. It is always hard to find a definition of songwriting with many varied opinions as to what it is. I would say that songwriting is the ability to construct lyrics that go together with music to construct a song. While a few other people believe that a songwriter can be someone who just writes lyrics, or someone who just composes music, I believe this is a wrong definition for a songwriter. Someone who writes just the lyrics is a lyricist and someone who writes music is just a composer. A songwriter is someone who can bring the two art forms together. And let me tell you, it is a hard artform.]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginners Guide To Songwriting Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is near now, can't wait! Have you all been writing songs? Hope so.

We  now move onto part four of the Beginners Guide to Songwriting. This one is mainly going to be about the lyrical side of things, so take note.

Lets Crack on with it:

Vocal Melody

Good solos can reinforce and underline the vocal melody (Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit) or take the place of words altogether when the intensity is peaking, as heard in Eric Clapton's awesome Layla. And sometimes a solo can come in like a stranger and end up in the heart of the song, like Paul Kossoff's great break in Free's Alright Now - an example of slow playing carrying twice the resonance of fast-fret wankery.]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginners Guide to Songwriting Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! Nearly the weekend again! ;-) Good times! How are you all? Good?

Anyway, now on to part three of the Beginners Guide to Songwriting, and we're now moving onto four topics; Arranging, Middle Eight, The Riff :-P, The Solo.

So without further ado lets crack on with it.

Arranging

Now for a bit of arranging. Are you going to take the traditional verse, chorus, middle eight route? Or try for something a bit more modal? There's nothing wrong with the traditional route - it's and all-time design classic. But, you see, there's the rub. How are you going to avoid your song sounding and feeling like a thousand others? Try to include some variation. Perhaps you could start with the chorus, or cut a verse in half. Try not to let the listener get to the end of the song before you, simply because they know where you're going with it.

Middle Eight

Middle eights are something of a hangover from the Tin Pan Alley days. To provide their song with a touch of variety, songwriters would drop in eight bars of a different melody, usually just after the second chorus or first solo.

Nowadays, the middle eight just refers to the bit where the song changes, also known as the bridge. If you do include one, make sure it's a cracker. There's nothing more dull than a middle eight that just drops down four keys - say, D to Bm - then wanders around in confusion like a drunk looking for a toilet door.

But let's say you don't want to do that verse/chorus thing and prefer the modal style favoured by bands like Janes Addiction and The Music...]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginner&#8217;s Guide To Songwriting Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone and back to another post in the Songwriting Guide. Hope you enjoyed my last one.

I have had a few emails about the last post with some readers tips on songwriting. I will probably post these in the last issue so feel free to keep your own tips coming. Just email them to lickthatriff@googlemail.com

So this weeks Guide is going to be on Key and Time Signature. Two of the biggest things when writing a song.
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		<title>The Beginner&#8217;s Guide To Songwriting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soooo, a post about songwriting. Well, didn&#8217;t think that I would do a post about songwriting but a friend convinced me to share some tips with you. Instead of putting it all in one big post I&#8217;ve decided to write a series of posts so that you all can take it step by step! Please [...]]]></description>
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