Analyzing my own song! ("Light On In The Window" from Quarantine Songs)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- An analysis of one of my favourite songs I've ever written, "Light On In The Window" from QUARANTINE SONGS.
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Topics covered in this analysis include:
-- the Creative Process
-- using the sharp 4th & flat 6th to create interesting melodies
-- AABA song form
-- Pop song form
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Beautiful Song. Others songs that use the four seasons thread are: Vivaldi's Violin Concertos, "I Wish You Love", "I Just Called to say I love you" and I myself wrote one. So you're in good company.
I am in tears... Oh no!!! What a hauntingly beautiful banalities of a song!!!!
P.S. Thank you for your sincerity in exposing your emotions creatively. How I wish that we can watch this play here in Western Australia some day.
I'm not sure why - and this is 100 percent a compliment - but the "trashcan by the curbside" chords give me Muppet vibes.
Omg... actually, yes! The Muppets use a lot of raised notes to create that uplifting, dreamy feeling... "Rainbow Connection" for example uses the sharp 1, and "Right Where I Belong" uses the sharp 5.... which is very similar to that sharp 4 I used on that line!
@@MusicTheatreTheory I was thinking Gonzo's "Going To Go Back There Someday," but that song has very similar Paul Williams nostalgia chords as "Rainbow." Thanks for explaining what I felt but definitely could not explain.
And also some song structure has a intro and outro and some song structures don’t have a intro it starts off with verse 1 right away which is the verse one chr ours abridged I wondered why?
And why songs always have to start at 0:00 and stop when the audio is complete aka binary zero aka 0:00 like why every record aka album 💿 aka cd 💿 aka lp when you skip ⏭ a song every single track starts at 0:00 🕛 and I don’t know 🤷♂️ why?
Is interlude and breakdown and also break same or different because to be honest they are totally 💯 different from each other when you listen 👂 to each individual piece of music 🎼 🎶 🎵 on a record aka lp aka long play or album 💿?
i mean chorus.
Your channel should be getting so many more views. I am stealing, borrowing, and pilfering ideas from every video.
Why is song 🎵 structure is really important to the song writing ✍️ process?
I think it’s really important to give the audience a structure that they recognize. If you give them a structure they’re not familiar with or can’t understand, their brain will be focusing its attention on figuring out what’s going on, instead of focusing on taking in the actual content & message of your song - which is what it should be focused on. On the other hand, if you give them a structure they know and are familiar with, they can sit back, relax, and focus more on receiving the message of your song. That doesn’t mean you can’t play around, invent, and surprise your audience - it just has to be primarily based on something your audience will understand.
Songs are communication. If you’re trying to communicate with somebody, you want to speak a language they understand, right? That’s why I think song structure is so important! Great question Luke, thanks for watching & commenting :-)
@@MusicTheatreTheory so true.
@@MusicTheatreTheory np 😉 music 🎼 theory and hopefully 🙏 you will make a UA-cam video on song structure and also I have another question is interlude and also breakdown and also break same or different in your honest opinion in my honest opinion I think 💭 🤔 🧐 they are totally 💯 100 💯 percent different from each other because stereo world 🌍, tangerine 🍊 have a breakdown after the bridge and then bam 💥 it goes right intro break but for descend it goes right into interlude what’s your honest opinion about this?
That familiarity and recognition is true in TV and radio commercials. In a 30-second spot, with a beginning, middle and end, there’s no time for the audience to figure out what’s going on. That’s why commercials rely on type-casting, so the viewer instantly understand who’s who and what’s going on. It’s familiar, expected and comfortable.