Bakolito

Hi. You're looking for excercises to play on your instrument and train your ear at the same time,and I guess I can share some realtive pitch's ones with you: 1.- Sing out while playing your scales naming the notes by Solfeggio syliables in movable Do, that means they will be always be named Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti, no matter what key you're really playing.Is crucial for this kind of training being sure about what grade of the scale or chord each not is. You must do this all along the entire register of your instrument, in all kinds of drilling scale patterns you have at hand, you must include evem those notes out of your vocal range, the excercises are not about singing, so it doesn't matter if you don't sound "good" as long as you're in tune. 2.- Do the same with all your chords' arpeggios,but not in linear fashion ( I ii iii Iv V vi vii) but in cadence-harmonic pattern-progressions like I IV V / ii V I / IV I V vi / iii vi ii V I / I V vi iii IV V IV V / and the likes. If you have some pieces or songs music sheets around, use those as chords progressions to drill. 3.- For training chords modes and progressions recognition, I suggest you to use an app, there are lots out there, or better: get you a good human teacher. Hope it helps. Tip 1: Try to translate any drill from the app to your guitar, and sing along. Tip 2: If it's available, enjoy the ride. ;D

Hi! This is my first post on this forum,English is not my mother tongue so maybe I'll find that writing in english is different than doing it in spanish,anyway I think there's one aspect of writing poetry and writing lyrics I must point out and share with you: Poems are written for "readers" and song lyrics for "listeners".This can be a "Perogrullada" as we say in spanish meaning something really obvious,but it is? This is a notion I started to see or hear when I get involved in writing music to somebody elses lyrics,a playwriter's.The lyrics look good on paper and in the context of the scenes, sometimes they were hilarious (it was a comedy) but once I sit with him and the Director and I was told in which genres or rhythms they wanted the songs to be and they sort of sang bits to me I started to "hear" them singing while "reading" the words on paper and the magic was gone: the great lines started to become words on paper nor "song lyrics".By the time I play some of my versions of the songs to them (previosly givin`them a little lecturing on this subject)they started to share this idea with me and re-written a whole bunch of the material with a song in mind and not the printed paper.I haven`t researched for books or papers on this subject yet nor have I had the chance to talk to fellow composers about it.What do you think of this? Blessings.