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Dear AMers – as I wrote in Steve’s (Sunjamr) “Thinking about a hook?” post: Like many others, I initially struggled with this Challenge. I thought I’d treat the Hook like a Chorus without words 🫤🤔. However, everything I came up with was dull and not very melodic. I decided to abandon this approach and just see what came out of noodling around (or ‘faffing about’ as my wife calls it 🤣🤣), and this is when I found myself repeating the phrase that I’m using as the “Hook” here (it’s only 17 seconds 👌😁).
I then tried to be too clever with the melody – inserting far too many “twiddly bits” 🤣🤣! Brian came to my rescue with EP634, at just the right time 👏👏. This addressed, “Vocal Guitar Phrasing; How to play it like you would sing it.” I calmed down 😂😂🤓🤓 and let the notes breathe 👍👍
My wife said it reminded her of a Sparkling Waterfall, so I’ve called it: Waterfall Blues
And the Scale is: G DorianI hope you like my performance🤞🤞! As always, I look forward to hearing all your submissions, should be a good’n 😁😁
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I hear the hook out of this, Mark. And it works so good in this jazzy tune brought to us by The Four Fabulous Marks. Great performance!
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An apology:-
I very rarely revisit Brian’s Challenge post after he’s submitted it. But having looked at it again just now, it seems I’m not the only one who misunderstood the challenge 🤔🤔
I thought it was just the Hook that had to be 30sec max. Ho humm – my bad 🙁🙁!
Brian did come back and clarify: “the entire thing you submit should be short, no more than 30 seconds.”
However, I didn’t see this clarification.
My only saving grace is that my submission starts with the Hook, and that does last for only 17 seconds – so, if you don’t want to listen for the rest of the 2 mins 20 secs, then you can exit there 🫤🫤 – to paraphrase Led Zeppelin, “The Hook Remains The Same” 😂😂
Sorry 🙁🙁
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An apology:-
I very rarely revisit Brian’s Challenge post after he’s submitted it. But having looked at it again just now, it seems I’m not the only one who misunderstood the challenge 🤔🤔
I thought it was just the Hook that had to be 30sec max. Ho humm – my bad 🙁🙁!
Brian did come back and clarify: “the entire thing you submit should be short, no more than 30 seconds.”
However, I didn’t see this clarification.
My only saving grace is that my submission starts with the Hook, and that does last for only 17 seconds – so, if you don’t want to listen for the rest of the 2 mins 20 secs, then you can exit there 🫤🫤 – to paraphrase Led Zeppelin, “The Hook Remains The Same” 😂😂
Sorry 🙁🙁
Yep, not the only one Mark. No big deal. I found this challenge particularly useful and will continue to challenge myself to create more ideas that can form the basis for an entire song. I’m hoping we hear more from Brian on expanding on the creative process for making hooks. It’s a lot different than I had originally thought. I almost want to suggest a hook challenge 2.0 further down the line with clearer instructions.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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