Cigarette Daydreams – Cage The Elephant – Song Breakdown

Oct 31, 2022 | Song Breakdowns

Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Cigarette Daydreams – Cage The Elephant All in all a very dense bass heavy production with lots of great keyboard sounds and layered vocals. Melody A nice multi-tracked vocal part, with the range of A2 to B4....

Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Song Breakdown

Oct 17, 2022 | Song Breakdowns

Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers   Melody A very funky syncopated melody, mostly between D4 and E4, but branching out into the range of F3 to E4. Some of the words are more spoken than sung...

What Did I Do This Week? – Just Do It!

Oct 14, 2022 | General

What Did I Do This Week?!? – Just Do It! My push to myself this on this weeks edition of “What Did I Do This Week?!?” has been “Just Do It”, and “Just Get It Done”. Stop over thinking and put your feet to the floor and start...

Improving Improv Melody

Oct 13, 2022 | General, Uncategorized

Improving Improv Melody How did it take me so long? I recently had a breakthrough while working on improving improv melody. It feels a bit like finally finding the clutch in a manual car after being stuck in first gear. This whole time I knew there was a way to shift...

Circles – Post Malone – Song Breakdown

Oct 10, 2022 | Song Breakdowns

Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) – Breaking Down – Circles by Post Malone A few general things: In every 4th measure, there is some sort of F chord, sometimes definitely major, sometimes, kind of minor, though the vocals sing an A...