Ears to Hear: Motif Guide to Song Critique

A song is a vessel for feeling. Good writers always ask themselves how to effectively carry their feeling-message across the sound waves and into the ears and hearts of listeners.
Thus, on the verge of recording, they must wear, or choose someone to wear the cap called “producer”. The producer’s job is to keep the [...]

Origin of Song: Stop, Ooo, What’s that Sound?

Ever listened to the tribal chants on National Geographic? Pretty unfamiliar, huh?
But when you consider the sound of these chants, it’s not hard to find their similarity with cries of pain, excitement, or mourning. That’s because chanting is for expressing passionate emotion.

Song is an expression of sounds that have a beginning and end, and it still communicates emotion. What we consider “song” today traveled a long road, from ancient times when people listened and sang to nature, through strict religious purposes, to entertainment (and its business) as we know it today.