The Guitar Institute Lagos

HOW TO SCORE A SONG EFFECTIVELY

Some singers who do not understand what it means to score a song thinks it mean listen to d song and learn the lyrics. No no no.

Firstly Scoring a song greatly depends on your level in music, listening fast, technicality of the song. You don't score a song anyhow it needs ATTENTION and CONCENTRATION. For the fact that you are enjoying the song and singing along does not mean you have scored it. Now the Big Question is

(1) WHAT IS SCORING OF A SONG

(2) HOW CAN I SCORE A SONG

If you can answer the first question, then you have 70% idea on how to answer the second.

SCORING A SONG is the tenacity and ability of literally knowing how a song was written, structured, and recorded. You inversely become the owner n producer of that song. Meaning that, you have to know the lyrics, the harmony, melody, rhythm etc. (I will break it down, relax)

The HOW-TO of Scoring a song entails the above and what am about to write now.
1. JUST LISTEN: Get your phone or mp3 player listen to the song, enjoy the melody. Dont start learning it. Feel the weight and sweetness of the song. You can do this once or twice.

2. KNOW THE STRUCTURE OF THE SONG: Know how it started either from intro to chorus, from chorus to verse or vice versa. This will help you achieve alot at the long run. This is the first stage of scoring a song.

3. WRITE THE LYRICS: Getting the lyrics down on a notebook will help you when learning the lyrics. I want to warn ⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠
Write down the song by yourself, i don't advice you should go to Internet and copy n paste. Is good to check it online, but listen to it if it tallies to what you are hearing abeg o. You maybe hearing VISION and seeing MISSION online. Be careful about that.

4. LEARN ALL VOCAL PARTS, BREAKS ETC: This is where i sometime begin to have problem with my choir. Some will be saying am an alto singer so l scored only d alto part 😳😳Ahhh. My dear you are a SINGER NOT ALTO SINGER. learn all the parts. Beside Singers should know how to swap parts. Know when each part comes in, when the sing MELODIOUSLY OR HARMONIOUSLY. (I appreciate my boss Sir EBEN for that insight).

5. BE THE LEAD SINGER AND THE BACK UP SINGERS: Try as much as possible to Handle the lead vocal part and the back up. This helps you to correct others even the lead singer when he or she flops. Learn everything both d ad-libs. Everything Everything.

6. LEARN THE INSTRUMENTATION SOUND: Don't say you dont know how to play, my dear learn d sound o. The keyboardist may not get d melody or solo part. You will tell him, see! Is not like that play pi ni ra ra ni. (Lol). Knowing the sound arrangement will help you when singing.

7. SING ALONG: You sing alongside with the music even if you have not or have perfected the song. Try to sing the same thing you hear in the song. I know voice texture differs but try do it with your own voice texture. You might be scoring Tamela Mann Song while your voice texture is like Don Jazzy or Eben. Do it. But dont go off.

7. TRY TO SING WITHOUT LISTENING OR PLAYING THE SONG: This where you know wether you have been joking since you started scoring. Most of us tend to sing well with musical instrument but remove the beat, They sound Wack. My dear sing the song without playing it. Where you make mistake play and song and correct yourself.

8. OWN THE SONG: i stated earlier that scoring a song means you are now the owner, music producer singer etc. If you can make the song yours. Then you can take it to any level.

With these Few tips you can score a song without fears.

COPIED!!!!

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Practice Plan

When going into a practice room, the first thing you should think is, "Why am I here?" You must have a specific goal in mind to make the practice session successful. Too many Guitarist merely practice as a habit and don't set daily, weekly, or monthly goals. This approach wastes hours of time and results in limited progress. An example of a goal may be to improve a scale pattern in the next 30-minutes session. Once the player has spent the first few minute warming up the fingers, and establishing a good tone, the goal of practicing and improving the scale pattern can begin. The player should turn the metronome to a modest tempo and work a small unit of the scale with numerous repetitions. As that unit becomes mastered, the metronome tempo can be increased and the pattern extended to include more notes. This approach of increasing the tempo gradually, combined with the use of segmentation and repetition, should continue until the entire scale passage is clean and even. Merely establishing a daily practice-session goal (or goals) is not enough for some people. To get the most out of practicing, one must keep track of the progress from one session to the next. I recommend that players specify what needs attention and keep accurate records of the daily improvements. The use of a practice "journal" may help organize the sessions better and make progress more obvious. Use the attached Daily Practice Planner to map out your daily practice routine. Mark the specific sections that need special attention and indicate the tempo you can accurately perform them. Once a tempo is mastered, mark it out and post a new tempo goal. After a few days, your planner should look like this

Remember these suggestions to make your practice planning successful.
1. “Practice what you can’t play.” – Larry Teal
2. Always use a metronome.
3. Don't waste time just playing music; practice it.
4. Be organized and manage your time wisely. Watch the clock.
5. A passage isn't mastered until you can play it three times in a row perfectly. (This refers to notes, rhythms, articulations, dynamics, and musical expression.) Only then can you increase the tempo.
6. Don't just move the tempo up one metronome marking at a time. Sometimes you can jump one or two settings to speed up the process.
7. Keep you body relaxed to perform at your optimum. Tension is the enemy of speed. (Use a mirror to observe yourself.) This planner is geared primarily toward practicing difficult passages. Practice sessions must also include the basics (such as tone, vibrato, scales, and arpeggios), technical studies/etudes, repertoire, and performance practice (the art of performing without stops).

By: Steven Mauk

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