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How songs work.

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Eight articles.
One idea each.

How a song is built, and how it comes apart: stems, tempo and bars, keys, chords and MIDI. Each article ends with something to try in Norah Studio.

Articles

The separate parts that make a song.

How a model hears the parts in a mix.

Beats, bars and BPM, plainly.

Semitones, and why to move a song.

Triads, charts and playing along.

Short passages, slow, then faster.

Notes you can edit, in any DAW.

Karaoke, minus-one and play-along.

Things to try

Take the singer out of any song you own.

Practise at your speed, in the same key.

The song's chords, on screen.