I’ve always had this idea for a song based on the entire Psalm 23. The first melodic seeds were planted way back in 2007 (back in the Songcraft heyday), and in 2008 I made another serious attempt to complete the song, but somehow it never saw the light of day. All these years the melody [...]
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The Unfinished Song (Psalm 23)
Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
Scoring For Piano
Monday, 20 June, 2011
Writing out the full piano score of your songs is kinda like seeing yourself running on film – most of us have no idea how we look like when we run. In the same way, I have no idea how my piano playing actually looks like on paper until I try to score it out [...]
In Their Own Words
Monday, 28 March, 2011
Yes, I’m still very interested in songwriting and have been rather heavily involved in songwriting this year. It’s still a huge passion of mine. Anyway, I recently borrowed a book from the library called “In Their Own Words” by Bill DeMain. It’s a collection of interviews with renown songwriters such as Billy Joel, David Bowie, [...]
Songwriting Stuff
Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
Haven’t been talking about songwriting for quite awhile. Here are some random thoughts… … The Special One Ever met a special someone whom you felt was probably going to be the most beautiful person you’d ever meet in your life? As in, for the rest of your life, you can’t imagine how you’d ever meet [...]
Nifty Little Device
Tuesday, 30 November, 2010
The more songs you write, the more likely it is that you might discover some nifty little songwriting devices for yourself. Lately I realised that I have been subconsciously using the Chord I to Chord IV/I(bass) transition quite a bit. For example, F to Bb/F(bass). I have encountered this little sequence in a number of [...]
Chris Martin On Songwriting
Sunday, 5 September, 2010
Chris Martin talks about how he wrote a new song called “Wedding Bells”. (He performed this song at the recent Apple conference.) Basically he plays around on the guitar and when he settles on an interesting chord that he likes, he just goes along with it and a tune (and even possibly lyrics) would naturally [...]
Christmas
Sunday, 5 September, 2010
Now that I’ve managed to clear a number of items off my personal to-do list, it’s time to start seriously working on some Christmas songs for church. You would be wrong to think that I’ve given up on music and songwriting, cos they will always be my first love. It’s just that nowadays I’m very [...]
“Song For Singapore” – NDP Theme Song 2010
Friday, 9 July, 2010
Every year I always like to look out for the official NDP theme song. Some years the songs are great, some years not so. But one thing we all cannot deny is that the glory years of the great NDP theme songs are well and truly behind us now. It’s always hard to write an [...]
Songwriting Thoughts
Monday, 31 May, 2010
Haven’t blabbered on songwriting for awhile, so here goes. Pardon me for the stream-of-consciousness writing. As you know, songwriting is one of my favourite topics, so I always have lots of thoughts on the subject. Some may seem weird, and some may seem strange. But these are just my own thoughts and philosophies. To each [...]
Updates
Friday, 28 May, 2010
A few friends have been asking me if I’m turning into a playwright this year. This is in light of what I posted recently about being exceedingly thrilled at having been selected in the Top 40 for “Short+Sweet Singapore”. Well, the simple answer is NO. Yes, I’ve been immersed in theatre this year and have [...]
