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Neel, Phil, Blair, and Allister

The Music Movies and TV Draft Show

For this special episode, we invited Song Studio organizers and pro singer-songwriters Blair Packham and Allister Bradley, to have a music movies and TV shows draft game show.

We each named our favourite movies or TV shows about music, including documentaries, biopics, musicals, or concert films, and if the other players had the same title on their lists, the player who called the title got a point.… Read the rest

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Neel and Phil

Songwriting Challenge 2023: Listener Songs Volume 2

Our second batch of listener songs for our songwriting challenge 2023 to write in a mode included a song (mostly) in Phrygian, one definitely in Phrygian, and one with modal interchange.

We talked about:

  • The Song Talk Meetup
  • Being sure you incorporate the unique intervals of a mode in your chord choices and melodies
  • Phrygian is not only for death metal
  • Where your home chord is matters in solidifying the identity of your mode
  • Anyone heard of the Dutch ska band Doe Maar?

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Phil and Neel

Songs with odd time signatures

For this special episode, Phil joined Neel in his studio to record our first in-person episode since early 2020!

We dove deep into songs with odd time signatures and talked about:

  • Our songwriting challenge for 2023
  • How time signatures work
  • How odd time signatures can introduce a lot of tension in your song
  • How complex time signatures with 5, 7 or 9 beats to the bar can be subdivided into 2s, 3s, and 4s to make counting them easier
  • How the emphasis on certain beats are important to defining the time signature

The songs:

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Don, Neel, and Phil

Home Recording Series: Mixing and Mastering Tips

For our ongoing series of episodes helping you with your home recording studios, our audio engineer from the before times, Don Thompson, joined us to talk about mixing and mastering tips.

We talked about:

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