emily playing sg1 theme

"In this assignment, you will analyze the verse and chorus you wrote in week 3 for stressed and unstressed syllables. You will then set your lyrics against a drum or music loop. Fellow students will evaluate your assignment based on the criteria below. Use them as a checklist in reviewing your own work."

Coursera songwriting course - assignment 4

"In this assignment, you will create a new song, based on the process outlined in the week 5 video lectures, including developing your song idea using boxes, creating a worksheet of rhyming words that can support your idea, writing the various song sections, creating melodic rhythm for the lyric lines, and generating melody for the sections. "

Coursera, songwriting course - Assignment 5

In this assignment, you will put the finishing touches on your song from last week. Using the phrasing tools, you’ll work line-by-line to enhance feeling: should this line feel stable or unstable? In some cases, where the feeling is unstable, you’ll want to use a back-heavy line. In others, you might try weak-bar phrasing. To support stable lines, you’ll try to use front-heavy lines. Be sure to notice the downbeats inside your lines too. Should you hit them, or skip them? Be careful, if you hit them, to put something there worth the spotlight.

Coursera Songwriting course assignment 6

Lots of interesting tones...

Recorded at:
Innes National Park
South Australia

VID 20140802 164543

VID 20140802 164712

Cover of  70's Adelaide band Stars, recorded at Tall Poppy Studios QLD, early 2014.

Look After Yourself (cover)

This is me playing in the Q150 Big Jam held in 2009

see:
http://implabs.net/events/the-big-jam
https://researchdatafinder.qut.edu.au/display/q56

Chris Warren-Smith