If You Can Hum It, You Can Play It...
Spock
Jun 3 2014, 08:17 AM
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I believe it was Cosmin's introduction video where I first heard that. And, I remember thinking to myself, "no way", but now I think I understand.

Recently I have become a huge Foo Fighters fan, and Dave Grohl is a massive musician, but not a technical one, however the Foo Fighters are a hit machine.

I've always written songs (either by myself or with a band) around guitar and then later someone else would form vocals/lyrics to them. During that process something almost always need to change, either a guitar part, the initial song structure - something in order to make the vocals cohesive. And it can also prove to be a difficult thing for a vocalist that is a bit shy about asking over and over if something else can change.

So the past few days I've been thinking it would be interesting to start with a vocal verse/chorus idea - don't even need the words - but just a melody idea can quickly pop into mind, and can be hummed to a metronome - then the root notes can be layed down on guitar and bass along with a drum track - and then guitar melody.

It wouldn't be much different from originating a song vocally on a piano or with a box guitar - except that (for me) I wouldn't kill my creativity by fumbling around trying to find the cords until after the initial vocal melody has already been captured.

I don't know why this formula didn't make sense sooner - but I think just recently it dawned on me from watching a few Foo Fighters documentaries and coming to understand that the vocal part is the hook - so write the hook, and make everything else compliment it.

I'm anxious to get started with this formula. If you can hum it, you can play it.

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PosterBoy
Jun 3 2014, 08:49 AM
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Starting with the melody line gives you a great opportunity to use interesting chords and progressions underneath too rather than your normal go to ones.

When you get to a place in the melody where you want something to tweak the listeners ear or give a whole different feel, you can just work on what chords and extended chords have that melody note in it and experiment until you find something you like.

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