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In chord arrangements for song writing in a Major Key, it’s common to have the I, IV, V chords arrangement where the V resolves back to the I chord.

i didn’t realise in a Minor Key song when you use the i, iv, v chord arrangements until i looked it up, you can also use the i, iv, V format instead of the i, iv, v – both arrangements work well in a…[Read more]

After looking at my Transposing Score Sheet, i can see why a Tenor player would want to play in the Altissimo range more so than an Alto player. If you want to play and sound the same notes as on a piano sheet, there’s tons of piano sheets where you would need to play in the tenor altissimo range.

Thanks for the heads up, i’ve rewritten it in 3/4 time.
I’ll have to record it again to hear the difference.

it’s a good point.

What happened was i looked out the window at my oak tree and noticed the leaves slowly starting to turn colour.

In my head in thought ‘my oak trees turning brown, oh no. when all the leaves drop on the ground i’m going to have to pick up 30 sacks of dead leaves’.

So i came up with the 1st line of my song, wrote it down – ‘My…[Read more]

I’ve now added the Guitar Chords to my music sheet, which is in the Piano Section, so now i plan to record the guitar chords as my 1st track as this will give me the rhythm timing (as i don’t have a drum track), then i can add the Alto afterwards.

my green oak tree full score

Thanks.
I think it’s in F# harmonic minor on the Alto, but i left it in C major as i wrote and sung the lyrics first on a blank sheet, then added the notes to the sheet as i went along – which is easier to write down.

Now i’ve got to add the guitar chords to the sheet in Concert key by ear to find which chords sound the best, which will be trial…[Read more]

had to correct the sheet in bar 11

My Green Oak Tree

very nice Leo!! I need to get back on track, with practicing.

Clarinets similar to wind instruments like the saxophone that use reeds, anyone playing the clarinet will tell if you want to play higher up the clarinet you must use a stronger reed otherwise it’s a lot harder to get a decent sound, that’s not going squeak a lot and sound very thin and dropping out.
Clarinets play overtones as well, but i find…[Read more]

That’s one of the first songs i learned to play from memory with the backing track years ago, even now i can still remember how to play the main parts of it.

I find the hardest part of trying to remember how to play any tune is the solo section as solo sections tend to go outside of the main melody and some solo sections get too technical when…[Read more]

Transposing raises another interesting point – looking at all of my Alto sheets, the highest they go is altissimo G, so it’s worthwhile at least mastering Altissimo G on the Alto but going higher up does improve how altissimo G is played.

Like it or not, a stronger reed makes altissimo easier to play. Also a wider mouthpiece on the Alto makes it…[Read more]

i wanted to buy cubase many years ago, but it was out of my price range back then and still is , also i couldn’t justify spending that amount for the small number of recordings that i do. So i bought logic pro years ago as that was more affordable. Logic pro is far better than garage band – more bells and whistles ie things you can do in logic pro…[Read more]

i wanted to buy cubase many years ago, but it was out of my price range back then and still is , also i couldn’t justify spending that amount for the small number of recordings that i do. So i bought logic pro years ago as that was more affordable. Logic pro is far better than garage band – more bells and whistles ie things you can do in logic pro…[Read more]

well played Leo!

Well played Leo. Good to see you back uploading again!!

Another well known saying – don’t come to conclusions about someone until you’ve walked in their shoes.

personally i’d rather sing any song without having to go through the ordeal of experiencing what the songwriter is conveying.