Writing and Revising: Musical Components

Turn First Person Sentences  into Third Person Sentences

• Use "one" instead of "I" (and "you") 
• "Whenever I have a problem at home, I listen to this band's positive songs" --> Whenever one has a problem at home, one can listen to this band's positive songs

• Start with the third person pronoun as subject(s) of a sentence, as they are subject of essay, and move modifiers around (and change them, even) to satisfy the idea

• I really love how Gnarls Barkley combines quick rap lines with poppy, drawn out chorus notes in "Crazy."  -->  Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" amazingly combines quickly rapped lines with poppy, drawn out chorus notes.

Music Analysis Essay Thoughts & Pre-(essay writing) Writing

1. What are your Top 5 favorite bands/artists?

2.     What types of songs do you like to listen to? What genre or topic do they normally cover?  (Background information…! Context for the song you chose to analyze)

3. What do you like most about music? Freewrite about all the things that you most pay attention to when you listen to music….

4. Figures of Speech—language.

• What is the greatest figurative line from a song, and what about that line is so great?

• Where does the line take the reader in and outside the song?

5. What types of instruments are part of the songs? How are these instruments used in the band?

Listen to the particular instrument as it is used in the song: describe in a quick free-write of three minutes the emotions, sounds, or whatever else you feel needs to be said about the use of tat instrument...

• Slipknot and drums...

• Mumford & Sons and the banjo...