Retrospective #4: An Index of Posts on Michael Acoustic Posts
Posts 13 - 16
This is the fourth in a series of posts that “index” some topic groupings over the past year of Michael Acoustic. I’m only including the main Friday posts, not the Thursday “teaser” posts. All posts in chronological order can be found at the Archive.
Post #13 - As the title implies, there are a LOT of charts in this post. The idea here was for folks who respond better to visual representations than written out explanations, or a combination of both, this approach might be more helpful. So it includes charts of the chords in each key and their proper classical names and classical Roman numeral designations, notes that make up basic triad Major chords, notes on the first 5 frets on the fretboard across all the strings and some common chord progressions in each Major key.
Post #14 - Song “covers” and royalty streams, the importance of copyrighting the songs you write and record, song structure, common traditional rules of song structures and then breaking them completely and with impuity, and “the hook”.
Post #15 - Lyric writing and lyrical structures, rhyme schemes, meter, phrasing, poetry as an analogue for music and learning structural components from poetry, more on “the hook”, write a silly song.
Post #16 - We took a break for Christmas, but the Merry Christmas post did explain mondegreens and why they can be darn funny. Then the New Year’s Eve post started us off using 4 of the 5 indispensable apps in order to learn a new song. First Soundhound to learn the title (If you happened to watch the HBO series “The Leftovers” you heard this song as the opening theme and could have learned the title and artist by opening Soundhound and holding your phone so the mic could “hear” it - that’s how I did it, anyway). Next Ultimate Guitar and Chordify to see a chord chart and hear the associated chord changes with the lyrics. Next you could check the lyrics in the user created UG version (in case of mondegreens) on the Genius Lyrics app.
Cheers and keep playing!
Michael Acoustic