Teach 1 Tuesday
Teach 1 Tuesday
Composing the Unforgettable: Secrets to Making Your Music Resonate
Prepare to be enthralled as we unveil the secrets to crafting a musical experience that grips your audience from the first note to the last. I'm going to take you on an auditory adventure, guiding you through the nuances of incorporating surprise elements into your music that can transform a simple tune into an unforgettable journey. Discover how to master vocal effects, employ background harmonies, and weave counter melodies that resonate deeply with your fans. Our conversation is an open invitation to amplify your creative prowess and make each song not just a melody, but a narrative that dances between the lines of your lyrics.
As we wrap up this melodic exploration, I also throw in some exciting updates from Rare Keys Production, designed to nurture your musical aspirations. I'm sharing my personal path within the industry and extending a hand to help you elevate your own sound. Remember, it's not just about hitting the right notes; it's about striking the right chords within the hearts of those who listen. So, adjust your headphones and let's set out to create music that doesn't just play in the background but becomes the soundtrack to your listeners' lives.
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The Toni King Experience
Welcome back to another great episode of Teach One Tuesday podcast. We want to get into something amazing today, but before we do that, let's get into that great theme music family. All right, all right, welcome back everyone to another great episode. Man, I'm excited about our subject for today. But before I get into that, let me get into a few links for you guys to check out. All right, because we are here to serve you, all right. So, uh, the first link is my class, my class, the toolkit for musicianship mastery. Calling all my musicians looking to learn the foundation of what it takes to be a great musician, this class is for you. Please go and check it out. The link is in the description. That's my channel, my YouTube channel, the Tony King experience. Go like and subscribe, hit that bell, learn something new that would change your life. All right, obviously you're're listening to the podcast family, but please spread the word about the Teach One Tuesday podcast, how we are here serving great creatives and musicians. Next is my business, roy Keys Production and Music School. We are here to serve you guys, whether it's a consultation, vocals, whether it's musical ideas, form, keys, tracks, whatever you're looking for, we're here to serve. Please go and check it out. If you want to learn more about me. There's a link tree link there for you to learn more about who I am. Listen to my music and what I'm all about. All right, so let's get into it.
Speaker 1:Today, um, today I I want to talk about briefly, I want to talk about surprises in your music, and there are many ways to do this. The goal of this is to make sure that you keep the listener on their toes. All right, because you want the listener to look forward to something in each section, whether we're talking about the intro, we're talking about the verse, we're talking about the chorus, pre-chorus, you know, second verse. Throughout the song you want to present, you want to present new ideas, new things that are happening, new sounds, and there's different ways to do that. Um, one way you can do that, I want to name several, but one of the ways that you can do that is effects on the vocal, you know, um. So let's just say, for the first verse, of course you want to keep your melody the same. For the for the most part, you want to keep your melody the same, but there are some effects you can. You can add to that, whether you um, you can. You can place an octave, a lower octave on there or a higher octave on there, um, you can play around with reverb on certain words. There are certain things you can do that can take that vocal to the next level and create some surprises. So let's just say for the first verse, you know it's normal, it has the normal effects, normal things on there. But let's just say for the second verse, you want to take things up a notch just with the vocal, and so what you can do is place those different effects on there, different sounds on there, and there's many plugins that you can use to accomplish that.
Speaker 1:The next thing you can do is still talking about vocal is you can take advantage of those spaces during the verse, those empty spaces where you can add background vocals. You can add vocals on certain words, you can add harmony on certain words, you can add certain runs in between those spaces. There are many things that you can do that can fill up those spaces and really add, to add some great um, some great surprises and interests, um, as your song goes on, which is very important and, mind you, I'm only talking about vocal, I haven't even gotten to plugins and I haven't even gotten to progressions and all that kind of stuff. I'm just simply talking about vocal right now. Um, what your vocal ways that you can add interest now is, as it pertains to sounds, of course you want to have, at least, is what I do, um, as I'm working on my project, uh, kingdom radio, you know, what I like to do is have a counter melody.
Speaker 1:Of course you have your main melody and you have, and you have a counter melody and, uh, what you want to make sure you do is that they have different personalities. There's something different about them, whether it's the octave, whether it's the rhythm. You, you want to make sure that they're different so they don't get into, get in the way. So, for instance, if your lead vocal melody is busy it's a lot of notes, that may, that means you want to make sure your counter melody is not as busy, rhythmically Right. And the other way you can do is having different octaves or different ways. You can do that, all right, to create interest and you know also you can just do a simple way is when you're playing, when the chords are being played, that melody that's on top of the chords that you're playing can also serve as a counter melody, all right, so you don't always have to create something complex that can be your counter melody. What's being played, you know on the keys, and so you want to keep this idea in mind.
Speaker 1:How can I continue to put things? Um in the track? That will, uh allow the listener to really stay on their toes and really keep their interest as the song is being played out, because that's really what you want. Of course, you have your message. Some people are not too worried about messages. They're just, you know, writing some lyrics and they just really want you to dance, but for others, they really want you to listen to what they're saying and what they're talking about. So, of course, for me, that's for me as an artist, that's number one the message, but you want to put things around that that's going to keep people really interested in what you're doing, what you're playing.
Speaker 1:One of the ways, another technique that you can use, is dropouts, um, when the, when the music stops and this happens, uh, from my experience and what I from what I heard, this happens before choruses um, there may be a drop and then the chorus comes in, and what mixing engineers or mastering engineers do, um, is that they take the chorus. They may increase the chorus a dB just to make it louder. It's another trick that they use to make the chorus louder, all right, and so there are things like that. There are many things, but there are things like that that you can do that will keep your listeners' interest, and I want you to take some of the things that I have mentioned here and think about other things that you can do.
Speaker 1:There's so many. You've got so many sounds. You have so many instruments. You have so many instruments. You have the percussion, the drums, you have the keys. You have you know. You have a pad. You have a cowl melody that's being played. Of course, you have the vocal. You have the lead vocal, background vocals. You have so many elements that you can use to continue to create interest.
Speaker 1:Don't think that you have to add a lot of instruments to do this. No, you just have to have some understanding of music and how it works and how it flows. And so I challenge you to think about this for your next song, your next hit how can I make this even more interesting? And it goes to the next level? And that's just laying down tracks, that's just creating the tracks and and picking your sounds that we haven't even gotten to mixing and mastering, and how it will take your song to the next level even more so. It continues to be very, very exciting. All right, so think about ways outside of what I've mentioned that you could take your song to the next level and I guarantee you you will not be sorry you would. You would really thank yourself for for thinking this way and um and keeping the interest of your listeners and your audience All right, I want to thank you so much for checking this out, man, before I go, I'm going to mention these links one more time the toolkit for musicianship mastery, my class, my youtube channel, the tony king experience.
Speaker 1:Go and like and subscribe this. Of course you're listening to the podcast, but please tell others about this great podcast, how we are elevating people that are on this musical journey. My business, rare keys production we are here to serve you and whatever services you may need. Please go check it out. And if you want to learn more about me, there's there's a. There's a link tree link there for you. If you want to learn more about me, please go and check it out. I hope you're having a wonderful day. If you're not having a wonderful day. You can change that by your mindset. Thanks so much.