4 simple steps to writing a song | Ralph Covert | TEDxNaperville

let it go up, give me a couple of numbers, at random. to David Bowie and Brian Eno randomly and they made Bowie's bass album do the same thing, they actually made the melodies and chords randomly like that so it can't happen but it doesn't have to but we have to use it so give me . some numbers for two and what 52 I love you when I teach composition one of the things I make my composition students promise I will do it all is out this is not my speech for me do it every that brings a hand my The corporate composition commitment of Roth is every time you discover a rule of composition or something that someone tells you is a rule of composition or something that your intuition tells you should be a rule of composition.

Promise me you'll break it, okay, that's why I love you amazing, so we're never an ascending line, we had some twos and some threes, so the two chords that we did and the three notes like that, they all use zig zaggy, so that was really the first thing. the second one second, okay, so we need some words for a chorus, let's see what we have here, who is your dad and me. I really missed the Dewey decimal system, I have a winner, okay, then we'll do the reprise, it's important for

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writers when I do the Who's Your Daddy?

Who is your dad? and then we'll do the I really miss the Dewey decimal system. Okay, so be like you. Zig zaggy won. Who is your dad? Who is your dad? The one too tall for you shouts below. Who is your dad? Badou, all this is over, sing with me, who is your dad? I really miss that sister okay so we have our versus hot dogs hot dogs my boys are amazing white wine gives me headaches one thing before we get in for free before before we sing our

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, perform our big hit together. I was thinking about a lot of things we've been talking about here, like the rhythm of words and the rhyme in the emotional center and in the type of content, where does all that come from?

Did all that develop? Do you have any idea where to go? Why do we have that? We use? Yes, but I mean further back. Why do words have rhythm and why do we use rhymes? How do they develop well? Think about it, I'm going to pull out my iPhone here and I can turn on recording, no, but because I want to record our song and guess what, iPhones haven't been around forever, but for iPhones they were recording studios before studios existed. of recording. pencil and paper before pencil and paper there was what narration and what good, how we maintain that oral narration and how we remember things with the oral tradition with rhythm and rhyme, an emotional center and understanding of the content as it progressed, that is what am. what it says is that not only are you capable of being a songwriter, you can't help it, but to be a songwriter you have hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, what made us human in the first place, what allowed us to gather information, put it together, it makes sense. . of the world and transmitting it are the exact tools we use to write rhythms, words and rhymes, and that content that not only you can't help but be a composer, it is the essence of what makes you human, it is integrated into you and that is incredible.

So look well, we have hot dogs, they are amazing. White wine gives me headaches. Who is your dad? Who is your dad? I really miss the Dewey decimal system because this is our big success. Can we get people on stage? People stand up. Come on, we are. Let's sing big, sing here, come on, get up, stand up, come on, the French, Peggy's people, join me on stage, come on, come on, come on, this would be a big sing-along, yeah , is your hit song. I don't want your hit song to fail at anything and dance and come on, yeah, come on, oh yeah, get the band together, okay, so the white wine is the headache.

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Get her together for the band. Get together, we have a hit record, thank you.