Song Suggestions
Dec. 8th, 2011 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiI'm working on a couple of things at once. The first one is a book called Project Lessons in Ritual Design. It's a work I originally planned to work on with someone else, but he's gotten too busy and I haven't talked with him in a couple of years at this point, so I figured I'd go ahead and do it by myself. I know enough about the topic to craft this book by myself, and it's been on my to-do list for too long.
The second book project, again nonfiction, is my thesis for the start up music conservatory I'm working with, a textbook on music production. This topic I also know fairly well, but there's a couple of things I'm a bit weak on.
I plan to teach production using a lot of listening. To that end I want to have the students listening to music, not only in their preferred genres, but in others they might not like or may even detest. The point to this is that production crosses genre boundaries and common practices in one arena might provide interesting results in others. It's also geared toward getting the students to listen to music in a different way -- as a producer instead of as a consumer of music.
But I don't have the time to listen to thousands of hours of Country, Hip-hop, and modern top 40 pop. So if anyone on my friends list has suggestions for tunes in these genres that you feel shows good song construction and sounds good, please drop them in my reply box here. For example, I've heard exactly one Lady Gaga song, and that was in a car while conversation was going on. But she obviously has something going on with how popular she is.
I'd also like to avoid crossover artists like Taylor Swift, as crossover is a different thing and tends to take the common denominator for production values. I'm looking for typical examples of a style using current production techniques that is done well.
Thanks for any help y'all can provide.
The second book project, again nonfiction, is my thesis for the start up music conservatory I'm working with, a textbook on music production. This topic I also know fairly well, but there's a couple of things I'm a bit weak on.
I plan to teach production using a lot of listening. To that end I want to have the students listening to music, not only in their preferred genres, but in others they might not like or may even detest. The point to this is that production crosses genre boundaries and common practices in one arena might provide interesting results in others. It's also geared toward getting the students to listen to music in a different way -- as a producer instead of as a consumer of music.
But I don't have the time to listen to thousands of hours of Country, Hip-hop, and modern top 40 pop. So if anyone on my friends list has suggestions for tunes in these genres that you feel shows good song construction and sounds good, please drop them in my reply box here. For example, I've heard exactly one Lady Gaga song, and that was in a car while conversation was going on. But she obviously has something going on with how popular she is.
I'd also like to avoid crossover artists like Taylor Swift, as crossover is a different thing and tends to take the common denominator for production values. I'm looking for typical examples of a style using current production techniques that is done well.
Thanks for any help y'all can provide.
