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Saturday, 22 February 2014

Ticket 22: Bluesify Your Melody


Most people are familiar with the concept of singing notes from the minor pentatonic scale over major chords in a 12 bar blues, but why not do it over non blues structures too? Make your vocal lines spicier by adding the b3, b5 or b7 to major key melodies. Be bold dahling! (If you're struggling to pitch the b5 you might want to try it over a IV7 chord).

Because
Come Together (and here)
Drive My Car
From Me To You
Get Back
Golden Slumbers
Hey Bulldog
Honey Pie
I'm So Tired
Oh! Darling
Old Brown Shoe
One After 909
She Loves You
The Long And Winding Road

You can also hear this in some instrumental sections as well notably Piggies, She Loves You and Yesterday

Also Suffragette City (David Bowie)

See Also

Ticket 13: Make The Vocals Stay On Non-Chord Tones
Ticket 14: Write An In-Key Melody Over Out-Of-Key Chords

and

The Band Who Lived Outside

See the full list of songwriting tips here - Tickets To Write


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21 comments:

  1. Curtis Pea2 September 2017 at 18:05

    Roll With It (Oasis)

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  2. Curtis Pea25 September 2017 at 20:46

    Terminal Heaven's Rock (the pillows)
    Ride on shooting star (the pillows)
    Babylon Tenshi No Uta (the pillows)
    Sono Mirai Wa Ima (the pillows)
    Walkin' On The Spiral (the pillows)

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  3. Curtis Pea17 October 2017 at 01:03

    (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister (The Stone Roses)

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  4. Curtis Pea22 December 2017 at 14:11

    Drops of Jupiter (Train)

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  5. Curtis Pea12 January 2018 at 02:25

    Everytime You Go Away ( Hall & Oates)

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  6. Curtis Pea17 February 2018 at 22:10

    Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)
    Shivering Sand (Mega City Four)
    Band on The Run (Wings)

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  7. Curtis Pea19 February 2018 at 05:25

    Life Is A Highway (Tom Cochrane)

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  8. Curtis Pea22 February 2018 at 14:05

    Some Kind Of Wonderful (Grand Funk Railroad)
    Funky Town (Lipps Inc.)

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  9. Curtis Pea22 February 2018 at 14:06

    Jawbone (The Band)

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  10. Curtis Pea24 February 2018 at 01:41

    Rush Rush (Debbie Harry)

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  11. Curtis Pea27 March 2018 at 07:39

    Dancing On My Own (Calum Scott)
    You're The One That I Want (John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John)
    Leave It All To Me (Theme from iCarly) (Miranda Cosgrove, Drake Bell)

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  12. Curtis Pea28 March 2018 at 07:30

    Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)

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  13. Curtis Pea30 March 2018 at 03:43

    Say What You Want (Texas)

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  14. Curtis Pea31 March 2018 at 01:44

    Hey! Baby (Bruce Channel)

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  15. Curtis Pea14 July 2018 at 03:14

    Whole Lotta Woman (Compulsive Gamblers)

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  16. Curtis Pea14 July 2018 at 19:03

    2:45 AM (Elliott Smith)

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  17. Curtis Pea23 July 2018 at 05:54

    What a Girl Wants (Christina Aguilera)

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  18. Curtis Pea14 August 2018 at 02:44

    Slow Hands (Interpol)

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  19. Curtis Pea15 August 2018 at 13:32

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  20. Curtis Pea17 August 2018 at 18:33

    Freeway Of Love (Aretha Franklin)

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  21. Curtis Pea2 October 2018 at 19:00

    Semi-Charmed Life (Third Eye Blind)

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