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There are many different ways to get started with songwriting and as the diagram above, taken from our free guide to songwriting suggests these could be words, words and music or music. A great way to help students grow in confidence to try out their ideas is to provide them with backing tracks to sing along to. The advantages of this are:
A selection of backing tracks and play along videos are available in our free e-book which you will receive if you join Musical Futures. Already a member? Drop us an email and we can send it to you! What better way to demonstrate this in action than in the following video examples which were recorded in Dalian, Northern China in 2017. The teachers were given a selection of backing tracks on their phones, asked to choose one, then add and perform a vocal line. Singing in another language made no difference to the overall shapes of the melodies and the delivery of the performances and it was a fun way to end our workshops because very little explanation was needed, once they heard the backing tracks they quickly started to write and experiment with the lyrics with no help at all from the workshop leaders.
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