This confusion of two quite distinct crafts often leads to a good deal of trouble for people in the early stages of writing songs. The answer is simple, though: do not confuse poetry and song lyrics.It is true that some lyrics read quite well away from their music, and some lyrics have a poetic quality in terms of their imagery or phrasing. But that alone does not turn a song lyric into a poem. The language of poetry is often too complex to be set to music. Poetry is intended to convey its meaning and emotion purely through words. True poetry has much less tolerance of clichè than lyrics. There are images you can get away with in a song lyric that you could never use in poetry.
Lyrics are words whose effect depends upon, and is symbiotic with, music. The music can supply whatever profundity is not there in the words. A banal phrase delivered by a great singer like Levi Stubbs or Aretha Franklin can sound fresh and full of meaning. In the same way, great music can excuse or even temporarily revive clichèd words and images.
Music is such a powerful modifier of meaning that a lyric that is essentially saying “I hate you’ could end up leaving the listener with the impression that although the singer says he hates her (or she hates him), really and truly he still loves her. Take 10cc’s ‘I’m Not In Love’. In this song, the speaker is at pains to insist that he does not love the addressee, yet the poignant music is undermining all his denials and turning them into excuses. In the end, though, the speaker never comes clean and admits it. He is saying that he’s not in love to the very end. In Dylan’s ‘Just Like A Woman’ the music seems to be almost rebelling against the acid disdain of the lyric. Other songs with a marked tension between lyric and music include The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’, Blue Oyster Cult’s ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ and Elvis Costello’s ‘Oliver’s Army’. The respective themes of possessiveness, suicide and imperialism are deliberately presented in musical disguise, the bitter pill sugar-coated.And all three were big hits.
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Most guitarists learn to strum without thinking about what they’re actually doing. A strummed guitar fulfills two functions: one is rhythmic, the other harmonic. The harmonic function is to supply a “wash” of sound relating to a chord, the equivalent of holding a chord on a keyboard. But because the guitar does not have much sustain, the notes will die unless they are struck again. Repeated striking sustains the presence of the chord. The relationship between strumming technique and sustain can be vividly heard on the mandolin, where rapid strumming is required to keep the notes “present”. Violinists solve this problem when they draw a bow across the string, continually exciting it to vibrate.
The rhythmic function has two components: the rhythm with which the chords are produced and the percussive attack (usually produced by a pick) on the guitar strings. Both aspects are important for solo performers accompanying themselves on the guitar. Guitarists working with a rhythm section or recording with a variety of instruments need to realize, though, that they no longer have to carry the whole of the rhythm with their strumming.
Good strumming patterns balance tempo against sustain. At a slow tempo, you hit the strings more frequently because the chords die away. At faster tempos, you might not need to hit them so often, unless like Jimmy Nolan or Nile Rodgers your guitar part is at least as significant for its percussive effect as for its harmonic effect.
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Posted on 5 March '10 by Music And Song, under Guitar. No Comments.
Casino is definitely an interesting setting for a movie because not only casino is a place, but also lifestyle. There are so many movies that use casino as the setting and even casino games as the main theme. Among all the casino movies, James Bond movie series Casino Royale is one of the movies that grab our attention. To spark the movie, in 2006, Casino Royale soundtrack was released.
David Arnold had a role as the soundtrack composer. The Album is filled with great composer and singers. One of them is the former Soungarden’s lead singer Chris Cornell. On the soundtrack, he sings You Know My Name. the As we all know, James Bond movie series are always has great soundtrack like Die Another Day sang by Madonna. Nowadays, online casino can be made in various themes, who know that in the future we can enjoy casino online gamblingpub with James Bond Casino Royale theme that is completed with its great soundtrack.
Just like a movie, the “soundtrack” of online casino is able to build or support the casino atmosphere as well. It will be cool if there is online casino that uses casino movie themes like You Know My Name as the background music. Well, maybe we can find it by exploring yahoo casino.
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Posted on 24 February '10 by Music And Song, under entertainment. No Comments.
