Baywatch
On Monday mornings I have Artist Development: Songs class. In this class I get yet another chance (among many) to present and work on my songs for the CD project I am to complete over the school term. My teacher listens, suggests, critiques and offers advice. I also get to learn super nerdy but extremely helpful stuff like modes. Frigian, Mixelodian (Sp?), Friggen (jk?), Eolian (wind power?)….k no really they are:
| Dorian | Phrygian | Lydian | Mixolydian | … |
etc and so on. They are different ways of playing scales? Yeah I’m just learning about this. Music theory can be a very important counterpart to spontaneous creative writing that falls from the sky or flows out of the veins in my fingers. Especially when I’m thinking “I want to sound like Elbow!” (one of my new favourite bands) and I want to know what makes a particular song have a certain sound and feel. I can look at what mode it might be in and write in that mode to achieve a similar result. Blah blah it’s like math sometimes, but where there’s a need (I neeeed to sound like Elbow) there’s a motivation 
To demonstrate a particular mode, my teacher Robin Randall showed me one of the million songs she wrote. This particular one is from an episode of Baywatch. She wrote for Baywatch! Isn’t that great?! Dugga Dugga Du (theme song intro…does anyone remember?)
Rescue me "Bay"by (Baby)
Step Aside Pam Anderson (*photo props Lynds)
hahahahahah