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Melody
Rhythm
Lyrics
Form

The Blues

Started by the black slaves in America

They would sing and clap
Protesting

Songwriting form: A A B A

Slow, Medium Uptempo

Shu e, Straight

Major and Minor

Thrill in Gone BB King

Medium, Straight, Minor

Sweet Home Chicago Eric Clapton

Fast, Shu e, Major

Blues in 6/8
Tin Pan Alley - Stevie Ray Vaughn

Assignment: A clothing company wants you to create an anthem for their new line of Jeans:
Rough-and-Tumble Blues. Compose and record this anthem keeping in mind the lyrical themes
of: living a rough and tumble lifestyle, being a wanderer and explorer, defying the norms of society
Production must at least include:
- Vocals
- Guitar or/and Keys
- Bass
- Drums
Please attach your lyrics to the submission.

The client enjoys guitar solos

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 Deadline: 18th July
Question: Make a full song

Decesions: Uptempo, Shu e, Minor

Midnight in Harlem - Tedeschi Trucks Band An example of Modern Blues

Bright Lights - Gary Clark Jr (Rock Blues)

Vultures - John Mayer

Rock & Roll - Led Zeppelin

Sloe Gin - Joe Bonamassa

Ball & Biscuit - The White Stripes

The 12 bar Blues is meant to be broken!!!!

Experiment!

Classics
"The Thrill Is Gone" by B.B. King
"Crossroads" by Robert Johnson
"Stormy Monday" by T-Bone Walker
"Hoochie Coochie Man" by Muddy Waters
"Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson
"I'd Rather Go Blind" by Etta James (covered by Beth Hart)
"Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King
"Red House" by Jimi Hendrix
"Smokestack Lightnin'" by Howlin' Wolf
"Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters
"Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Spoonful" by Howlin' Wolf
"Statesboro Blues" by Blind Willie McTell (famously covered by the Allman Brothers)
"Dust My Broom" by Elmore James
"Baby, Please Don't Go" by Big Joe Williams
"I'm Tore Down" by Freddie King
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" by Willie Dixon
"Cat sh Blues" by Robert Petway
"Boom Boom" by John Lee Hooker
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith (famously covered by Eric
Clapton)
"Key to the Highway" by Big Bill Broonzy
"Dust My Blues" by Elmore James
"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" by Sonny Boy Williamson
"Help Me" by Sonny Boy Williamson II
"Back Door Man" by Howlin' Wolf
"I Can't Quit You Baby" by Willie Dixon
"Bright Lights, Big City" by Jimmy Reed
"Love in Vain" by Robert Johnson
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" by Muddy Waters
"Walking Blues" by Robert Johnson
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 "I'm a King Bee" by Slim Harpo
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by John Lee Hooker
"Tin Pan Alley" by Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Every Day I Have the Blues" by Memphis Slim
"The Sky Is Crying" by Elmore James
"Shake Your Moneymaker" by Elmore James
"Got My Mojo Working" by Muddy Waters
"Sittin' on Top of the World" by Howlin' Wolf
"Muddy Waters Blues" by Bessie Smith
"Spoonful" by Cream

Modern Blues Songs

"Going Home" by Joe Bonamassa
"Ball and Chain" by Gary Clark Jr.
"Riding with the King" by Eric Clapton and B.B. King
"Midnight in Harlem" by Tedeschi Trucks Band
"Don't Explain" by Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart
"Cold Little Heart" by Michael Kiwanuka
"If Trouble Was Money" by Gary Clark Jr.
"The High Cost of Low Living" by Joe Bonamassa
"Angel from Montgomery" by Susan Tedeschi
"Give It Back to You" by The Record Company
"When My Train Pulls In" by Gary Clark Jr.
"Damn Your Eyes" by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa
"Wishing Well" by Gary Moore
"Grinnin' in Your Face" by Eric Bibb
"Ain't No Sunshine" by Buddy Guy
"Brighter Days" by Robert Randolph & The Family Band
"Savior" by Gary Clark Jr.
"Bad Luck" by R.L. Burnside
"Shelter" by Ray LaMontagne
"Evil" by Keb' Mo'
"The Blues Is Alive and Well" by Buddy Guy
"Black Co ee" by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa
"Trouble in Mind" by Gary Clark Jr.
"Make It Rain" by Joe Bonamassa
"Don't Leave Me Alone" by Joe Bonamassa
"Bright Lights" by Gary Clark Jr.
"Shine" by Benjamin Booker
"Mississippi Kisses" by Samantha Fish
"Rumble" by Seasick Steve
"The Healing" by Gary Clark Jr.
"Goin' Down" by Freddie King (covered by Je Beck with Beth Hart)
"If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day" by Eric Clapton
"Good as Hell" by Vintage Trouble
"Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" by Joe Bonamassa
"River" by Bishop Briggs
"Change It" by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
"You Wreck Me" by Gary Clark Jr.
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by John Mayer (Jimi Hendrix cover)
"Feeling Good" by Nina Simone (covered by Joe Bonamassa)
"When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin (covered by Joe Bonamassa)

BRIEF:
"A clothing company wants you to create an anthem for their new line of Jeans: Rough-and-
Tumble Blues. Compose and record this anthem keeping in mind the lyrical themes of: living a
rough and tumble lifestyle, being a wanderer and explorer, defying the norms of society
Production must at least include:
- Vocals
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- Guitar or/and Keys
- Bass
- Drums
Please attach your lyrics to the submission.”

11th Jul

Lyric Structure: A, A, B

Why won’t you come baby John Mayor

Lines repeating is very powerful

From the storytelling perspective A is the mystery and B is the reveal.

The Thrill is Gone BB King

The A part is Thrill is gone

A has to be mysterious.

Make it personal

How to write mysterious lyrics?

1. Ask a question in A.
Give the answer in the B part.

Eg: Why won’t you let me sleep?

2. Use simile or metaphor

Similie: You’re like the ocean (direct comparison)

Metaphor: You’re the ocean (indirect comparison)

3. Lyrical hooks

Eg: Baby you’re a rework

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Topic: Being Broke

I din’t get paid for the gig yet

I ain’t got no money in pocket

Cause I din’t get paid for the gig that day

I’d give you the world baby,

I’d give you the world if I could.
Oh, I’d give you the world baby,
I’d give you everything I could.
But I’m on my knees baby, can't hold myself up like I should

The weight of the world is pressing down

Oh lord save me its pressing down on me
The weight of the world is pressing down
Oo baby its pressing down on me,
Ive got so many bills to pay, and to pay them ive got no way

I don’t want it all

I don’t want it all day

A is cryptic

B is explicit
22nd July 2024

Rock Music

Drugs

Depression

Addiction

Sex

Love

Hardships

Rebellion

Any topic that is considered tabu by society

Rock Music was Pop Music

Context and Themes

Pop chords vi, IV, I, V

Breaking Taboos of Depression and Addiction

Historical In uences

UK and US based Rock Music

Hippie Era

Brief:

Purpose: There is a Bollywood lm, this is the scene, make a song about it.
Ambani Requires a rock song for their wedding

Rock Open Mic, Interschool Band Competition, Release on Spotify, A song for a software
album
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You are an artist and a student approaches you to write a song about their feelings
because that’s the only way they can express their feelings to their guardians.

Length of the Song: 2min or more

Instrumentation: Guitars, Drums, Bass, Vocals,

Theme: What is the song about?

Wanting to get out of VU

Hostel Life

Anti AI Music song

Pro AI Music

Convincing your parents to do music

Unemployment,, Downfall of Indian Economy

Worst day of Hostel

Early adulthood

Independence, preparing for the outside world,

Learning to survive on your own and Dealing With Pressure, Being Far Away from home,

Dealing with Pressure

Being Far Away from home, Being Independent, preparing for the outside world, Learning
to survive on your own, Dealing/Coping with pressure
Assassination

This song is about recovering from addiction.

Give lots of data in the brif

Composer and Arranger Yuvaj

Mix Engineer Nyah
Sound Designer Neil
Lyricist Garth

Yuvraj
Garth
Neil
Aniket

Pet - A Perfect Circle

Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Welcome to Paradise - Green Day

Animal - Pearl Jam

Nada Nada - Avial

Blue Orchid - The White Stripes

Reptilia - The Strokes

1st Aug 2024

I’m about to break

Angst

I wish for something better

Loneliness

Complaint

Dissatisfaction

4 sarcastic lines and at least 1 punchy verb

Humour vs Aggression

Angst Complaint

MAke it sarcastic

Punchy verbs

Break
Crash
Kill

Leave your phone

I am addicted to instagram

It is pink it is blue
Give me a break
I wanna go

Give me a break
I wanna go home

I can’t write songs

My verses ow like the river

Pre-choruses sweet and nice
My chorus will hit you hard on the face
But I struggle to write 4 lines…
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Ballad comes from Poetry

Ballad poems

What are Ballads?

Very focused around few elements

Compos

Let the vocalist go nuts

Versatility of vocals

My heart will go on is a ballad

Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheraan

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

Someone Like You - Adele

Adele is very busy on tour and is in need of a writer and producer. She needs you to write
and produce a 2:30s ballad song for her upcoming album which is about heartbreak
(obviously). The song needs to be written like a story of the good old days when
everything was great in the relationship. The bridge of the ballad must be from the
perspective of looking back on the relationship which is very painful. She will pick the
best pitch out of all submitted

Keep Adele’s style and make something fresh too

19th August
12th Aug 2024

1. Layer the bass with a sub bass sin wave

2. Nice and warm bass tone required

2. Put a nice reverb on the piano (Plate reverb)

Make a chord progression arpeggiation type of chordal motif rst

Drums

Put a lovely reverb to the snare

EQ the high end of the kick to make it sound warm just like the bass

Put a compressor on the drums

Layer the Piano

Let the vocals stand out

Pop Ballad Lyrics

Chorus: Baby Why did you leave me?

Baby you’re a rework

Verse: The story of what happened to lead to the chorus of Baby why did you leave me

Bridge : Middle 8 (Maybe I deserved it)

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Pop Structure

Intro

Verse

Chorus

Verse

Chorus

Bridge

Chorus

Outro

Bridge is not a change of key or bpm

Break Up

Write 2 stanzas 8 lines

Make the time, place and mindset clear

Time

Place

Mindset
Break Up

Time: After breakup

Place: My hometown

Mindset: I’m helpless

Sometimes I stare at the open sky

Think about us, think about why
Why you chose to be with me
And oh, why the hell did I?

Aah when I look back now

I think of you, I think of how
How you got me in this mess
And I din’t even say I’m out.

How everything turned out to be

Or was it just simply me?

How I managed to do this all

I think it was worth the fall.

How did I manage to do this all

I feel that it was worth the fall

All the things you made me do
Well its all over now
I’ve learn’t my lessons
All I wanted was someone to talk to
But