King County Library System | Renton Libraries
Librarian – Jennifer Wooten
Songwriting, Production and the Music Industry
Music Inspired By the Fall
Winter’s Coming
By Renton Library and STYLE
— Chorus —
Will I regret
not seeing your beauty
Winters coming
the sun is setting
—-
Will I regret
One must accept
Fall is fading
heat escaping
— Verse —
Rain turns to snow
The feeling of being cold
Someone by the bonfire
—-
Twigs crackling (chilly)
Like embers seem to sing
Think I once heard a choir
—-
The smell of fire fading
autumn rain unending
Soon ill be complaining
After fall
—-
Cars make puddles splash
The ground soon turns to glass
Days just seem to pass
Growing small
— Chorus —
Will I regret
not seeing your beauty
Winters coming
the sun is setting
—-
Will I regret
One must accept
Fall is fading
heat escaping
Instrumental Track
The Music Industry
#1: Song Production (Oct 22)
with Blake Lewis
We’ll build a song together while we work with a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). We’ll discuss the process of building a beat and preparing for the lyric writing process. This may be the first step in songwriting. Some musicians write lyrics first, but there is no correct way to go about creating.
#2: Lyric writing (Oct 29)
with Jimmie Herrod
This is our next step in building a song. We’ll tie up some loose ends with the production, but we’ll focus more heavily on the lyrics and the final instrument in the song, the voice.
#3: Mixing and Mastering (Nov 5)
with STYLE
Here is the final piece to the song. This is when you make the song usable for radio and online platforms. We’ll adjust the levels of some of the tracks we built, and implement any effects that will elevate the song.
Music inspired by
Rita Dove’s November for Beginners
Snow would be the easy
way out—that softening
sky like a sigh of relief
at finally being allowed
to yield. No dice.
We stack twigs for burning
in glistening patches
but the rain won’t give.
—–
So we wait, breeding
mood, making music
of decline. We sit down
in the smell of the past
and rise in a light
that is already leaving.
We ache in secret,
memorizing
—-
a gloomy line
or two of German.
When spring comes
we promise to act
the fool. Pour,
rain! Sail, wind,
with your cargo of zithers!
Meet Your STYLE Teaching Artist
Blake Lewis
Cool videos worth checking out!
Jimmie Herrod
Cool videos worth checking out!
Do You Remember & Is It The Way
by Jill Scott
Nate Bogopolsky
Cool videos worth checking out!
Geoff Larson
And here are some more dope videos!
Upside down and Inside out
by OK GO
Fun Music Websites
Jazz Computer
Hypercube
Chrome Music Lab
Do you know any cool music websites?
