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Resources for Composition and Songwriting

For the senior students who are budding songwriters, here are three great YouTube channels that will help you dig deeper into what makes a great song.

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12tone – For senior students who are looking a little deeper at things and who are interested in relating music theory to contemporary music ideas, experiences and song writing.  MIE recommended.

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Holistic Songwriting

Very interesting for senior students who are interested in the music business.  Videos provide great insight into the techniques used by big name pop artists to create consistently successful products.  MIE recommended.

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The Song Foundry - also it’s associated YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzq5QTz4CLg29-RtaooqVhA

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Jazz composition booklet - Document by Rachel

Created: October 19, 2012 | Updated: October 16, 2017

From The Guardian Teaching Resources this is a guide to building the different elements of music to create a jazz composition.  Over 9 pages, this simple process uses the 12 bar blues form to help students create their own jazz composition.  There is one page left blank where pupils fill in or copy down riffs looked at in class. This was created for GCSE pupils.

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