Drafting 2/5 - Music to Write to

Drafting is the second step of the 5 part writing process - it's where you take the ideas and information generated in the previous prewriting stage and get them down. Again, we're not worried about perfection, we're just concerned with what these ideas look and feel like.

Having identified a working theme based around a 4 chord structure - B minor, D major, E minor A major - this piece plays with that outline and looks at some of the internal relationships. The first half focuses on tone while the second half plays with the progression.

The third step in the process is revising and this week will be spent tightening up the different themes and flavors.

Image Credit: Creative Flow by Ian Hayhurst on Flickr

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Drafting 2/5 - Music to Write to

Drafting is the second step of the 5 part writing process - it's where you take the ideas and information generated in the previous prewriting stage and get them down. Again, we're not worried about perfection, we're just concerned with what these ideas look and feel like.

Having identified a working theme based around a 4 chord structure - B minor, D major, E minor A major - this piece plays with that outline and looks at some of the internal relationships. The first half focuses on tone while the second half plays with the progression.

The third step in the process is revising and this week will be spent tightening up the different themes and flavors.

Image Credit: Creative Flow by Ian Hayhurst on Flickr

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Coyote Blues

So I'm working through the piece and it's beginning to come together - the main theme and first variation are dialed in and I'm beginning to flesh out the second theme. As is my practice I'll fire up the metronome and start playing the themes at different Bpms to see what comes out and this little blues clip appeared on Sunday. The left hand is a super simple walk down but it's the right hand that caught my ear.

[audio:coyote-blues.mp3| titles= Coyote - Blues Development|artists=music2work2 ]

The track's in B minor & I realized that I don't think I've ever played the blues in this key before - which is kind of odd really. Although technically playing the same relative notes - different keys sound completely different to one another - the positioning of the different black and white keys and how they relate to each other change depending on what key you're in - think I might play in B minor a little longer!

The second theme variation comes in at the end - I'll post later on this week the development of the primary theme.

Image Credit: Coyote tlindebaum Flickr CC