Hey everyone. I’m quite busy and just not feeling it this week, so I wrote a 30 second theme song for your life called “Your Theme Song”. Your life sounds like it could be an Anime show like Pokémon or something along those lines. Ironically, there are no lyrics, so this isn’t technically a song. …
Hey everyone. This week’s song and post is about telling a story with your song. This song is called “The One I Need” and is a fictional story about losing a loved one. Let’s check it out then talk about it. Listen here: Blog Post Songs Month 10 by Matt Whitehead Music How did I …
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Hey everyone. I hope you’ve been doing well. I’ve been getting busier and busier and sleep has been more and more elusive these days. However, I’m still able to function enough to keep producing songs, articles, and personalized lessons for all of you. This week’s song is called “Let Your Life Begin” and is based …
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Hey everyone. I’m late this week! I’ve been very busy writing and recording music and videos and writing grants and this that and the other thing. Thank you for your patience and here’s this week’s track! It’s an instrumental track I named “Thoughts Processed” that I created and improvised over to get what you hear. …
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Discussion and example on how to write your own similar song to “Burn It To The Ground” by Nickelback.
Hey everyone. There has been some amazing music released this October. Among the many albums from tons of great bands is Riot City‘s album “Electric Elite” which is the much anticipated followup to “Burn The Night” that they released in 2019. Cale Savy – one of the founding members of Riot City – and I …
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Hey everyone. Thanks for stopping in to give a listen and a read to this week’s post. I was in a group recently that was looking to work towards playing gigs with more popular type of music and we were using Nickelback as a band to emulate. Why Nickelback? Well, whether you like them or …
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Greetings and salutations, everyone. One of my childhood/lifelong friends and I were talking last week and he was mentioning how the “Dad Metal” song I wrote reminded him of some Goth Metal he listens to; specifically the song “Let You Down” by Theater of Tragedy. This sparked the idea for this week’s post about writing …
Hello again. The past week had a lot of funny conversations about “dad metal” and the various descriptors of it. One prime way to find “Dad Metal” is to turn on a radio station and just listen to the bands on there. It’s just hard rock/diet metal like Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed, among …
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Hey everybody. I hope your weekend was a delight and that you’re excited for the coming week. This post is about turning an etude into a tune. Though this is an instrumental guitar tune that I wrote from an etude I made, the exercises and applications work for all instruments. Let’s give it a listen …