Week 2 – Blog

Date: March 18^th – 22^nd  

This week we observed the different types of forms and structures involved in creating a song and how our own creative process leads to unique personal outcomes in creating a song.  For the second part of the lesson, we were shown examples of these forms. This included songs such as “day in the life” by the Beatles 1 and “Mama Mia” by Abba 2 . These were selected to highlight the different forms of the bridge and variations of the pre-chorus and chorus.

To conclude the lesson, we were split up into groups to discuss our own creative process and to find a lot of us are not sure how we create our songs.  On Wednesday’s lesson March 20^th, we focused on strategies. These included the following:

• “Dot-Dash (Long sounds/Short sounds)” 3
• “UBER CHORD: think of a sound/note” 4
• “An Apple A Day” 5
• “Conversation” 6

Other examples were listened to as well.

References

1 McCartney, J. L. a. P., 1967. A Day in the Life. [Sound Recording] (The Beatles ).

2 Bjorn Ulvaeus, B. A. a. S. A., 1975. Mama Mia. [Sound Recording] (Abba ).

3 Derek, “Strategies” ( Tutor presented at the course Song Writing and Performance 1A, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, March 22, 2019).

4 Derek, “Strategies” ( Tutor presented at the course Song Writing and Performance 1A, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, March 22, 2019).

5 Derek, “Strategies” ( Tutor presented at the course Song Writing and Performance 1A, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, March 22, 2019).

6 Derek, “Strategies” ( Tutor presented at the course Song Writing and Performance 1A, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, March 22, 2019).