attended a music writing workshop at church today.
the guest was rob galea, and to think i almost didn't go. (various reasons...) but i'm glad i did and i liked how i come to that conscious decision.
he mentioned a few things that is worthy to note to me.
i learnt some new things today because i know nothing about songwriting, he certainly didn't claim to be a professional (though he has three cd's out alrdy so that is somewhat professional?) but here's the 5 points he made
1. harmonic bed chord progression.
2. melody
3. lyrics
4. drumbeats or "loops"
5. element of story.
that aside he also mentioned that the prerequisite would be the internal climate.
to give a very solid example, he related and caught us by giving the example of looking at our facebook, and writing down the past 10 status updates... here's mine:
1 - happy with my decision this afternoon. inspired. [clearly from going to the workshop]
2 - :: ~life isn't easy and anything worth fighting for is worth it in the end.~::
[now, do i count the photo updates? - manawatu river, aug05; popcorn machine in akl, aug05]
3 - wishes for, and NEEDS, selective anmesia.
[two photos: andy's package, jess's souvenirs]
4 - thanks soo much, andy ng!!! =D
5 - :D [that's still from andy's package]
6 - apart from you, yes, you, my male or female friend who is reading this, i prayed for allwomen today, yes you. - The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
[photo: cowaramup, jul07; link: moth clothing & more; photo: ellie's dress when we went out for drinks in the city; photo: jiu fen, jul10]
7 - a good dream! [jen knows abt this one...]
[photo: in response to will ng's photo - cherry blossoms, aug04; photo: souvenirs from turkey and italy from zoo]
8 - shall.be.productive.
9 - zumba-ed.
[photo: dimsum train at garden city]
10 - moments of embarassmentSSS, memories, and perhaps gd times... miss you, dy!!! [drunk update from phone.]
so. how about internal climate...
i think i'm at a healthier state anyway.
GIGO/TITO idea.
which is i guess true, that's why there's the teaching since young, 近朱者赤，近墨者黑
and perhaps that's also the reason why adrian mentioned that she didn't want to go to the vet debate because csm would say things that she prolly didn't want to hear and it's hard to "unhear" sth.
over flowing idea.
he compared us to a vessel, like a vase or a glass or a bucket... we are filled with water and we try to share our water, but eventually it will run dry. when we run dry, because we want to help people, we will break our cup into bits and share the pieces with people, and eventually we'll be broken with nothing more to give... so we need to ask the big G man for more water, to overflow us, so we may share our water with others. i think i related that well because it seems like there are people around me who are like that. perhaps everyone would realise they can only do so much after a while, i guess we all realise that after a while... so it doesn't matter they know G or not. but i guess this is just a reminder where we're only human and we can only do so much, we try and we have good intentions, but really out abilities are limited.
rob also compared himself to being vulnerable when he writes his songs and perform them, and hoping he can touch the hearts of others, so they in turn may be vulnerable before G himself. quite an interesting idea. i guess it's almost like ppl who blogs their hearts out? i dunno... perhaps?
\\ music is life, play on. //
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