Week 3 – Blog

Date: March 25^th – 27^th

During our lesson, today we focused on the essentials of writing a song which focused on lyrics and the structure, plus the rhyming structure. This showed us what could be included in our songs e.g. the title of the song should be said in the chorus. We also got information about the different types of rhymes e.g. Assonant rhyme plus the rhyme schemes e.g. ABAB and internal rhymes. A song released in 2015 that includes most of this information is by Adele Adkins “When We Were Young” she used a common saying that most people would have an emotional connection while having the same starting letter song. From being exposed to this information I feel I will keep starting with the title/topic/idea first 1.

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Adele Adkins

During our improv class today we incorporated the blues scale which every student participated in plus had multiple solos which were mostly vocals. This class showed me that I need to focus, plus practice on my improv skills as I feel I am not the best that I know I can be. I also want to learn more scales so that I can sing them from memory.

Example of blues scales:

C Blues Scale  (commonly used)

A Blues Scale (what was followed in the tutorial )

References

1 Adkins, A., 2015. When We Were Young. [Sound Recording] (Adele Adkins ).

2 Basic Music Theory , 2019. A blues scale. [Online]
Available at: https://www.basicmusictheory.com/a-blues-scale
[Accessed 27 March 2019].

3 Basic Music Theory , 2019. C blues scale. [Online]
Available at: https://www.basicmusictheory.com/c-blues-scale
[Accessed 27 March 2019].