Songwriting:
At HBMS, we have two songwriting units; one at the end of 6th grade, just after you learn to play chords on piano, guitar, and ukulele and one in 8th grade, as the culmination project of your music curriculum at HBMS.
Two questions to start us off:
1. What qualities make a song great?
2. What qualities make you want to listen to a song?
Songwriting is a wonderfully expressive medium. It can be so personal and allow you to be exactly you. As Ed Sheeran explains:
However, songwriting is very challenging and involves quite a bit of musical understanding.
Step 1: Decide what kind of song you want to write. You certainly could combine styles or create something totally different, like a brass quartet or an accapella song.
Rock
Blues
Country
Pop
Soul
Rap
Step 2: Decide the main topic. Emma has a suggestion of how to start this.
Step 1: Decide what kind of song you want to write. You certainly could combine styles or create something totally different, like a brass quartet or an accapella song.
Rock
Blues
Country
Pop
Soul
Rap
Step 2: Decide the main topic. Emma has a suggestion of how to start this.
Another option: Cake Songs
The Band Cake writes clever, sometimes sarcastic songs on a variety of topics. From "Opera Singer" describing the live of Opera Singers, to the three below: describing the situation of traffic (Long Line of Cars) to different style of cars (Stickshifts and Safetybelts) to the US Mint (Dime). Which US President is on the dime?
The Band Cake writes clever, sometimes sarcastic songs on a variety of topics. From "Opera Singer" describing the live of Opera Singers, to the three below: describing the situation of traffic (Long Line of Cars) to different style of cars (Stickshifts and Safetybelts) to the US Mint (Dime). Which US President is on the dime?
Dime Lyrics:
In the brown shag carpet of a cheap motel
In the dark and dusty corner by the TV shelf
Is a small reminder of a simpler time
When a crumpled up pair of trousers cost a brand new dime
Well you ask me how I made it through and how my mint condition could belong to you
When I'm on the ground I roll through town
I'm a president you don't remember getting kicked around
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine I'm freshly minted
I am determined not to be dented
By a car or by a plane or anything not yet invented
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine
In the hiss and rumble of the freeway sounds
As the afternoon commuters drive their cars around
There's a ringle jingle near the underpass
There's a sparkle near the fast food garbage and roadside trash
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine I'm freshly minted
I'm silver-plated I'm underrated
You won't even pick me up because I'm not enough for a local phone call
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine
In the brown shag carpet of a cheap motel
In the dark and dusty corner by the TV shelf
Is a small reminder of a simpler time
When a crumpled up pair of trousers cost a brand new dime
Well you ask me how I made it through and how my mint condition could belong to you
When I'm on the ground I roll through town
I'm a president you don't remember getting kicked around
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine I'm freshly minted
I am determined not to be dented
By a car or by a plane or anything not yet invented
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine
In the hiss and rumble of the freeway sounds
As the afternoon commuters drive their cars around
There's a ringle jingle near the underpass
There's a sparkle near the fast food garbage and roadside trash
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine I'm freshly minted
I'm silver-plated I'm underrated
You won't even pick me up because I'm not enough for a local phone call
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine
I'm a dime
I'm fine
And I shine