Write or Wrong
True or False: In Strategic Songwriting, songs are written ahead of time by the music therapist.
True!
Songs are pre-composed by the music therapists for a specific client and goal.
You are working with a group of preschoolers (3-5 year olds). What songwriting method would you be most likely to use?
Strategic songwriting
How many bars are in the standard blues form?
Twelve
What is another name for fill in the blank songwriting?
Cloze songwriting
True or False: Synchronous raps are written down and practiced to create a permanent product.
False!
Synchronous raps happen "in the moment" (also known as freestyle).
In piggyback songwriting, does the music therapist write the words ahead of time or with the client?
What is the name of a song with the form A A A?
Strophic
Define song collage.
Utilizing pre-existing lyrics from songs in a new order to create a new song.
True or False:
For clients who may struggle with self expression, song collage is a good method to choose.
True
Because utilizing someone else's lyrics may be easier than composing your own.
What is the first client consideration when planning a songwriting intervention?
The goal!
What are you working on?! What's the purpose?!
I --- IV
V7/IV also known as I7
Name one support you can use to help facilitate success when using the "songwriting from scratch" method with clients?
(anything that adds structure)
i.e.: Lyric prompts, Music technology aids, melody guides via pentatonic xylophones, etc.
True or False:
Considerations when deciding whether or not to censor lyrics include the age of the client and whether therapy is a group or 1:1.
True.
Also, consider the policy of the place where therapy is occurring.
What are two things to consider for your clients when picking which tone chimes to use in an arrangement?
1. Upper extremity physical strength (when choosing the size of the tone chimes)
2. Hearing ability (when choosing the octave/specific note)
Name one "standard chord progression" option you can keep in your back pocket when songwriting from scratch with a client.
I IV V
I V vi IV
Pachelbel's canon chord progression
Blues Progression
ii V I
i V i IV
If you were working on identifying coping skills using a FITB song, what would be the best words to leave out of these lyrics:
"I don't care if the rain comes down, I'm gonna dance all day".
Leave out: "dance all day".
"I don't care if the rain comes down, I'm gonna ______________."
True or False:
Strategic Songwriting has 2 rules:
The melodic contour and rhythm of your melody should reflect the inflection and rhythm (prosody) of normal speech.
Use the structure of the melodic and harmonic phrases to provide a natural place for a response
False! There are 3 more rules:
A song is not finished until you have used it in therapy sessions several times with different clients
Modify musical components to make it more interesting
Put something challenging in each song so you continue to grow as a musician.
The length and number of the blanks.
What are the scale degrees in a blues scale?
1 b3 4 b5 5 b7
Put these songwriting methods in order by length of time required in a session or sessions:
Strategic, from scratch, fill in the blank, parody
Shortest to longest:
Strategic, fill in the blank, parody, from scratch