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Songwriting
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.
Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Songwriting
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document personal musical ideas.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Songwriting
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic
work.
Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
“You”
Lyric Planning tools
Something to keep you from staring at the blank white
page.
We’ll look at 3 different possibilities
Melody
Weather it’s created vocally or instrumentally, all melodies are
first a product of improvisation, one of our core values.
And…. No. 1 of the National Core Arts Standards
Hints and Tips
•Start with your title and or chorus’ main idea. •Sing/play that motive until you are satisfied with it. •Build your phrases from extending this thought.•Create your verse to lead into and support your chorus.
Verses are typically in a lower range than the chorus.•Don’t fear repetition.•“Try writing a chorus for your chorus.” Paul Baloche•Look closely at your chord progression. Use a different
starting chord for the differing section. Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.
Document
Record it!!!Save your work
Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document personal musical ideas.
Arrangement
Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.
Evaluate10 Finished Copy of Lead Sheet9 Song completed with © symbol 8 Verse and Chorus with melody completed7 Verse or Chorus melody completed6 Melody started5 Verse and chorus lyric completed4 Verse or chorus completed3 Song started (on topic)2 Topic chosen1 Writing partner chosen0 idle
Enduring Understanding: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
