On Tue 17-Jun-1997  1:16p, Dennis Leong said to Nancy Wood:
DL> This reads like a formula or recipe. Great music has always been the
DL> result
DL> of someone smashing the rules of music accepted at that time, not from
DL> paint-by-numbers "songwriting"
On Tue 17-Jun-1997  1:16p, Dennis Leong said to Nancy Wood:
DL> -=> Quoting Nancy Wood to All <=-
DL>  NW> Here's a txt that I got during the songwriter's seminar here. It
DL>  NW> was handed out by  a TX publisher/copyright attorney who is out of
DL>  NW> Austin. 
DL>  NW> SONGWRITING TECHNIQUES
DL> This reads like a formula or recipe. Great music has always been the
DL> result
DL> of someone smashing the rules of music accepted at that time, not from
DL> paint-by-numbers "songwriting"
DL> Personally, I hate songs that go Verse Chorus verse chorus verse chorus
DL> chorus
DL> Boring.
DL> That's what them alternative rockers do. Metal too, but at least they
DL> throw in a solo to spice it up, give an alternative melody and idea to
DL> the
DL> existing rhythm and chord structure.
DL> --- Blue Wave/386 v2.20
Well You have to know the rules before you can break them.
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