Q. I know how to play the piano and have lately wrote some lyrics. But, I need help. How do you transpose lyrics into a piano song. I have picked E Major as my key.
My chord progression is: E - G# - B - A
Could anyone help me, I'm stuck?
A. While there are no rules, there are premises, fundamental ideas on how it works best, which have been written about and are helpful.
Do yourself a very big favor, and purchase a Harvard dictionary of music and music terms, available in a low cost paperback edition. You are clearly working on your own, and if you looked up transpose, for example, you would find it does not at all apply to SETTING text to music.
Also look up Prosody, which is the subject best for you to learn something of if you are to set words to music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_(linguistics)
Since you are doing this so on your own, finding out what prosody is, as a general concept, will already be a great help in how to think about the problem in front of you.
I am certain there are either articles or books, or a chapter of a book, dedicated to Prosody as it relates to the craft of setting words to music. I leave it to you to research that.
For a good beginning, go through some exercise in setting text to a simple melodic line, without adding chords or any other kind of accompaniment. Setting both words and line in a manner closer to personal daily speech, with pauses (rests) and not trying to fit it into a metric verse format, while avoiding convential pop song formats, will give you that much better an understanding of how to effectively but it into the more conventional metric forms as used in popular song.
I suggest some nursery rhymes or short poems for children. If there is a tune associated with the nursery rhyme, as is often the case, take the text, forget the old tune, and write a new one for it. Setting prose, unrhymed and not metric text, is also a great and informative exercise. Again, concentrate only on words and musical line, without accompaniment.
The direct experiences will give you a much better idea how it works, the exercises should be short, which allows your beginning and ending it quickly so you can go to another for further practice.
Since your project is likely to come out less well and / or take much longer unless you have some prior experience, that series of short exercises is a good preliminary work prior your directly attempting a moderate length pop song, the practice giving you a much better chance for 'success' when you start to work on your song.
At least Prosody will give you some very worthwhile 'generalities,' and help you in understanding how to think about the problem (In one regard, making art is solving problems you have set up for yourself.)
With little or no background or experience, other generalities from the most well-intended contributor will offer you very little in the way of concrete guidance.
Best regards.
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Best answer 10 points! Whats the best way to understand music theory and easy way?
Q. I'm taking a music theory class and I'm having a heard time understanding whats being taught. I play the piano mainly by ear. Use to take lessons, but I dont read music as well as I use to ever since my teacher left me. Is there any advice someone can give me learn music theory? I'm just not getting it.
A. Hey Josh R, click on mt avatar, add me as one of your contacts and then read all the answers I gave to others. I mainly answer questions on here about theory so there is a LOT there that will help you. Here are the books you NEED to buy from a music shop:
MASTER YOUR THEORY by DULCIE HOLLAND books 1 2 and 3 (Dont bother with 4 5 etc, they go into writing for string sections etc) These books are workbooks. They explain everything first, then give you exercises and then some questions to answer. The important thing to remember with theory (Or MUSIC in general) is WE DONT GET THINGS WRONG!
Let me explain, at school, if you do a maths test and you get 8/10 they will mark you as 8/10 and leave it at that. As MUSICIANS we go BACK and STUDY those TWO things you got wrong and do it AGAIN and AGAIN until you get it right, until you know it and until you UNDERSTAND it. NEVER ever leave anything as UNKNOWN.
So musicians dont get things wrong doesnt mean you dont make mistakes, it just means you dont go any further until you get it right.
So with the workbooks, work in PENCIL. IF you get something wrong, RUB IT OUT and do it again until you DO get it right. I always find it best to photocopy the pages, then do the answers, that way you can use the same book over and over again. (The answers that you need will be on the first page instructions for each LESSON)
The book is set out in LESSONS. NEVER start LESSON TWO until everysingle answer in lesson one is CORRECT. You will NEED the information from lesson one to understand how to do lesson two.
You get it? If you were building a house of cards and one of the bottom cards wasnt lined up, the next level of cards WILL fall.
With music, if you CANT build a C scale, you cant work out the chord, or change it to a minor.
YOU should do this with your school work as well, just because the teachers are too lazy to finish their work doesnt mean you have to settle for 8/10!
Also, if you add me as a contact, I get an email of every music question you ask, so if you need to know ANYTHING, if youve added me as a contact, I'll be able to answer it. Otherwise I wont know the question is up here. (Also, I cant answer questions you leave on your questions AFTer you've best answered them. Add me as a contact)
This is for you. Theres not a lot of information here, its very basic but its all accurate
http://musictheoryblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/duration-of-notes-and-rests-dotted.html
http://www.pianoinstructors.com/musicterms/term1.html (NO LESSONS here dude, just the dictionary to help you okay?)
All the best
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