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I have this one book, The complete idiots guide to music composition and I have a few questions. The book discusses song structure and it gives an example of a song form, verse-chorus-verse (sometimes notated as ABA) and it said the first long meolody is the verse, the second long melody is the...

Going back to the groove workshop again, I have another question. When I was watching the emotion/feel segment victor did a little demo. He was playing harmonics and he said "when that gets too much, and the audience is getting a little restless" he played a fill using the slap thumb and pluck...

Going back to that book I refered to in my last thread, i have a few more questions. First question is about melodic phrases. The book gave a tip and said: "Of all the short melodies within a composition, and there should be more than one" What does that mean? Does it mean using the original...

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I was reading this one book that I have, complete idiots guide to music composition, and it discusses the importance of melodic shape and contour. I just wanted to get your opinion on that topic. Is it important? The book also explained that your compositions should have a climax. It didn't...

Victor asked for ten equal parts that music could divided into. I know he said it can be broken down more, but what do you think about tension/release? Thanks.

I just bought a loop station and have been just messing around with it. I seen victor wooten use one in groove workshop and took a solo over a phrase. I want your guys advice on when to use the loop station. I know victor wooten uses one to play a solo because once you start soloing the groove...

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As I've been watching you and Vic on groove workshop, some of the grooves both of you come up with are really catchy and have great grooves, of course. My question is , how do you come up with catchy/ groovy motifs or song phrases. I know you said that the groove is on the "e's" and the "uh's"...

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When I'am writing something, the hardest part of the composing process is making the transition between sections sound natural, such as going from the verse to the chorus. How do you make the change from each section of song with out it sounding to jarring. Do you need some sort of connecting...

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Hey doug, I was wondering if you could give me some advice on modulation. I wrote this one piece and it involves modulation of a half-step twice, I modulate up a half-step first, then, after a few measures, another half-step. My question is this; how do I make the modulation sound more natural...