On a quiet night, if there is a breeze and you listen closely, you can actually hear a faint cry of live music calling to be saved. Of course, there are thousands of live bands playing on any given weekend, but if you are referring to downloadable royalty free music for your upcoming business project, âlive music is hard to findâ.
As rapidly as computer and internet technology have advanced, so has the field of digital recording. The downloadable music available through many websites is noticeably electronic. Digital tools have been created to mimic the sounds of live musicians but âthere is a bit of soul missing from the mix,â so say songwriters & part owners of a new production company Media-Riffs.com.
One of the goals of this song writing duo is to make live music available to people and businesses who want to enhance the presentation of their projects. Live music can move the soul and improve the delivery of a message on a website or power point presentation.
It can drive home the intensity of an idea in a marketing DVD or make a special home video more sentimental.
The great part about royalty free music is that you or your company can download a song and use it over and over without paying fees each time. The great part about www.Media-Riffs.com is that the music and musicians are real and not electronic. âLive music just feels better.â Together the two owners represent a combined 40 years of songwriting and producing experience. They joke about starting the âCoalition for Saving Live Music.â With the availability for anyone to instantly download their favorite audio track, perhaps the cries of live music fading away will become distant cries of the past.
In most pop, rock and soul songwriting these more complex chords are not used very often. Fascinating as they are, try not to get carried away with them. It is a fatal habit among keyboard players who write songs that because it is easy for them to play extended chords they have to use them all the time. I have known keyboard players who seemed incapable of playing a simple C Em Am G progression without turning it into C11, Emadd9b5, Am7b5 and Gdom11 . This is as beside the point as guitarists who insist that every song has to have at least two long guitar solos! Of course this stuff is interesting to play. But song writing is not about giving yourself interesting things to play. The individual instrumental parts of a song may be rather dull, or at least not taxing, but the magic of the song is in the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
So use extended chords carefully, just to add a touch of colour here and there. One ninth chord placed at a telling position in a chord progression can add far more than half a dozen. One way to try this out is to take some of the turnarounds in section 3 and change one of the chords into a more complicated form.
Now it is time to explore one of the most exciting areas of songwriting craft. Got your backpack, provisions,suncream and maps? We are going travelling into the world of key changes.
