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....
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...
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...
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...
Oct 5, 2022 | Drums, General, Guitar
Be a Drummer Seriously, just do it. It’s just one of those simple facts of life that everyone plays guitar. If you need a great guitarist, chances are you’ll have more applicants for the position than you can handle. Like a colony of ants that is mostly...
Oct 4, 2022 | Song Breakdowns
Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Apparently this song started out as a joke for Harry Styles, and then became a big hit. One fun story was that he once slipped on a kiwi thrown on stage at a London show. This lead to a Manchester store banning...
