Homework 2013-2014 C2 #10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions about destination writing:
1. What is the purpose of destination writing?
2. How do you begin destination writing?
3. What do you use as springboards for creativity?
4. How do you build a connection to your audience?

Homework #11
Answer the following questions about destination writing:
1. What are the two types of detail you need to include?
2. How do you maintain a balance between them?
3. How are the words going to work with the music?
4. What kind of lyric would go with a melody that doesn't change?

Homework #12
Answer the following questions about the 10-step writing process:
1. How do you keep your song from being boring?
2. How can you keep an unique voice while repeating your patterns?
3. At what point in the 10-step writing process do you figure out the plot?
4. How soon should you figure your rhyme scheme?

Due Friday Feb 7 or Friday Feb14 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C2 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions about song forms:
1. What is the Strophic form?
2. What are some other common song structures?
3. Why is the introduction to a song not considered essential?
4. What is the song structure called if it has no repeating sections?

Homework #14
Answer the following questions about the 12 bar blues:
1. What is number of bars for each chord in the 12 bar blues?
2. How many half steps are there between the 1 chord and the 4 chord?
3. Why is the five chord 7 half steps up but only 5 half steps down?
4. What is the most common lyric pattern for the 12 bar blues?

Homework #15
Answer the following questions about song forms:
1. What are the differences in the two definitions of the song element "bridge"?
2. What is the "middle eight"?
3. What is a "collision" as a song structural element?
4. What is a "coda"?

Due Friday Feb 28 (albertwestside@gmail.com)