I’ll Always Be Your Mother is a new mother and son wedding song that I wrote for my son’s wedding in 2006.
When my son told me he was getting married, I knew I wanted to write a song for him and his new bride. My intention was to give him something special and personal. As I started to write the song, it became more obvious to me that it would be a wonderful song to be played at the wedding that he (more…)
While many of the other classic rock legends of the 1960s like The Who, The Rolling Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin, & Jimi Hendrix are quite well known for their riff based rock songs, The Beatles are usually considered a guitar riff based band.
And there’s a strong reason| sound excuse| good reason} for that, The Beatles wrote all types of different songs with all kinds of different agreements. But they actually did sometimes write (more…)
Fergie is an American singer and songwriter. Her real name is Stacy Ann Ferguson, but she is popularly known in the music world by her stage name Fergie. Glamorous is the third single from her debut solo album The Duchess. Fergie is also the vocalist of hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas; she is also a former member of the group Wild Child. Just as the title of the song suggests, the song and the album is all about the glamorous life that the sin (more…)
Tin pan alley possesses a standard bugaboo for all new songwriters. This is the always-current rumor that publishers, professional songwriters, bandleaders – in fact, anyone and everyone in the music business – is intent upon stealing the ideas of new songwriters. Many new writers are hesitant about sending songs to publishers for this very reason. They are positive that if they allow the song out of their hands before the publishing contract is (more…)
The owner of a large chain of English schools in Brazil suggested to me that adult contemporary pop songs whose lyrics contained concentrated areas of grammar would be of great benefit to ESL students. The concept of using songs to aid in the teaching/learning of English is not a new one. When I looked into this area I found that the songs being used are either aimed at children, or standard songs whose only real “English learning benefit” is tha (more…)
Music lovers and enthusiasts have all the rights to learn their chosen musical instrument despite of their impairment, as long as such will not completely forbid them to play such. Various tips and instructional guides are available on the internet and some libraries that will give music teachers the resources to be effective in handling special learners.
Let us say in the case of Andrea Boccelli, a great tenor and musician wh (more…)
Online music is one of the most popular ways to acquire music these days. It makes sense, since almost every person here has or has heard of the iPod. Downloading music from the internet makes it more convenient to upload the songs directly onto an M3 player. However, not everyone that has an iPod is going to be aware of the fact that they just might be downloading music illegally. Now it is harder to find the music sites that are using these (more…)
The holidays are filled with joyful emotions and honored
traditions, including the playing of songs about snowmen, St.
Nick, evergreen trees, and presents wrapped up with big pretty
bows. No matter how you celebrate the season, you’ll hear these
songs on the radio, on TV, at the mall, in the office, and just
about anywhere music is performed.
If you think the same songs are played over and over, you’re
right, but if this bothers you, consi (more…)
No matter how much space you may have on your iPod, there is going to come that day that you will want to free up some space by deleting some songs or playlists off of your iPod. Knowing this ahead of time that you cannot delete songs or playlists off of your iPod itself without a computer will help you out in the future. You need to go through your computer and through iTunes to manage your song files. This is the only safe way to really manage (more…)
Over the next few minutes, we are going to discuss the beginning basics of how to write a song, the intro, the structure and the verse. Over the next few minutes, we are going to continue on with more tips for the beginner song writer. We will talk about the structure of a verse, the actual music, lyrics, melody and chorus.
Ok, the basic structure of a verse is your four chords and four line structure. This basically means you sin (more…)