Tag: daniel levitan
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“Rules” in Songwriting
I recently had Australian songwriter Michael Paynter in to guest teach a class, and he was expertly giving some feedback to a student’s song project. He dropped a bit of a knowledge bomb—a shorthand ‘rule’: The Rule of 3’s. The rule goes like this: in any production, the ear of a listener can really only…
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Why write it as a song?
It’s a question I ask of myself all the time. Why write this idea as a song, and not as a poem? A short story? A blog post? An angry rant to a neighbour? What function does a song serve that draws me to it as the vehicle for an idea? One answer is that…