I hope you enjoyed working with the 'theoretical slices' from Sara Bareilles's 'Uncharted' today. I'm guessing it was a rather new experience for most of you to be using a computer program to develop and play through chord progressions with a recorded song acting as your 'instrument'. In coming classes, you will have the opportunity to record yourself jamming (improvising) with your chord-slice-grooves and look for ways to structure them into new compositions. I do hope that you are hearing the relationship between I, IV, V, and vi.
For homework, I'd like you to dig in to the Theorytabs on Hooktheory. You will see that you can dive into lists of particular chord progressions and also search on songs with which you are already familiar. When you stumble on a song you like that happens to make use of I, IV, V, and vi, please make a note of it and post it to your blog along with a link or embedded video. Consider your next blog post to be titled 'Songs I think are awesome that I'd like to use as inspiration to make awesome music of my own." You will then use the progressions and rhythmic grooves from those songs as 'ingredients' in making new progressions/songs. Keep in mind the quote I shared today from Igor Stravinsky, "All music is theft." Since 'the first act of music is listening', we are all ultimately inspired (intentionally or unintentionally) by the music we hear and have heard. I look forward to you 'jamming out' in Ableton Live on the chord progressions of songs you like, then taking chances with them and changing them in some way (reordering chords, changing the rhythmic groove-where they fall on the rhythm necklace-, etc.) Looking forward to your work!
And an article to reinforce the point...
For homework, I'd like you to dig in to the Theorytabs on Hooktheory. You will see that you can dive into lists of particular chord progressions and also search on songs with which you are already familiar. When you stumble on a song you like that happens to make use of I, IV, V, and vi, please make a note of it and post it to your blog along with a link or embedded video. Consider your next blog post to be titled 'Songs I think are awesome that I'd like to use as inspiration to make awesome music of my own." You will then use the progressions and rhythmic grooves from those songs as 'ingredients' in making new progressions/songs. Keep in mind the quote I shared today from Igor Stravinsky, "All music is theft." Since 'the first act of music is listening', we are all ultimately inspired (intentionally or unintentionally) by the music we hear and have heard. I look forward to you 'jamming out' in Ableton Live on the chord progressions of songs you like, then taking chances with them and changing them in some way (reordering chords, changing the rhythmic groove-where they fall on the rhythm necklace-, etc.) Looking forward to your work!
And an article to reinforce the point...
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