This week I have a 2 chord song, yes just 2 chords. I look at the pentatonic scale, spin a lovely Jazz tune from a favourite Paris band, we'll see a couple of versions of the half - time beat, and deep dive into the characteristics of Country.

In Hits and Hooks Vignettes, we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, and join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Songs:

Beldon Burch - Beyond This Town (Jamendo Licensing)

Jeff Jacobs - Romantic Night (Jamendo Licensing)

Dazie Mae - Sofa (Jamendo Licensing)

E.D. Kennaway - On The Road to Somewhere (Jamendo Licensing)

Gulf Stream Riders - End Of The Line (Jamendo Licensing)

Confushian - Down south (Jamendo Licensing)

Ed Napoli - Azul Dos Seus Olhos (Jamendo Licensing)

Luna Keller - I Don't Know Where I'm Going (Jamendo Licensing)

Music Inserts:

Musica in Armonia - mozart 2 Kyrie in F KV33 (Jamendo Licensing)

VibeCroft - Electronic News (Jamendo Licensing)

Circus Marcus - Beethoven - Bagatelle Op. 119 No 9 (Jamendo Licensing)

Art Music - Road to Paris (Jamendo Licensing)

Bulbasound - Blue Horizon (Jamendo Licensing)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "The Arrival" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Under God's Wing" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Land Of Homemade Wine" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Paris" (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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This week I look at rhyming, imagery and the refrain, in song lyrics. We'll see the hooks that come from staggered instrument entrance. What's a sampler? we'll take a look. Also groove and an unusual Blues song.

In Hits and Hooks Vignettes, we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, and join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Songs:

FJGI - Peazo gilipollas (Jamendo Licensing)

Radio Nowhere - Caroline (Jamendo Licensing)

Ava Della Petra - Power of you (Jamendo Licensing)

Ingvi Kormaksson - Summer Love (Jamendo Licensing)

Confushian - Dog on a string (Jamendo Licensing)

Forget the Whale - I Know Where You've Been (Jamendo Licensing)

LUCID LIP - Stone Street Serenade (Jamendo Licensing)

Saint Anyway - White Light (And A Bottle Of Wine) (Jamendo Licensing)

Music Inserts:

Various artists - Handel. Suite in D Minor HWV 428 - I. Prelude. Allegro - Yong-Yun Lee (Jamendo Licensing)

moodmode - Outlaws Reckoning (Jamendo Licensing)

OnClassical - Sibelius Jean Kuolema Op. 44 - I. Valse triste (Jamendo Licensing)

Osipov Vladimir - Smooth Jazz (Jamendo Licensing)

pinegroove - Cocktail Mambo (Jamendo Licensing)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "The Arrival" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, " Hasta Que Te Veo De Nuevo" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "My Mom She Told Me" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Ferry Me Away" (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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This week we'll see some vocal virtuosity, I dive into folky ballads, and for contrast a rockin' drivin' riffin' song. Ostinato, what's that? What makes a rhyme and how can we use them. And we'll have a laugh or two.

In Hits and Hooks Vignettes, we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, and join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Songs:

Jeff Jacobs - Let's Live Like Animals (Jamendo Licensing)

Dustin Chapman - Slow Dance (Jamendo Licensing)

ASHWYN - Waiting For Someone (Jamendo Licensing)

Clark Ford - Throwin' Our Love Away (Jamendo Licensing)

The Sean Moon Band - Out Here (Jamendo Licensing)

FinnFixx - All Your Love (Jamendo Licensing)

Luke Davids - Lonesome Road (Jamendo Licensing)

Katilyn - Follow the Flow (Jamendo Licensing)

Music Inserts:

Various artists - Haydn. Sonata in B Minor Hob XVI 32 - I. Allegro - Ji Eun Park (Jamendo Licensing)

Robert80z - Paradise (Jamendo Licensing)

piccadillyCircus - New Orleans Dixieland (Jamendo Licensing)

filigree4 - Latin Guitars (Jamendo Licensing)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "The Arrival" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Shifting Winds" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "First Snow Of Winter" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Witness" (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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This week we'll see how expectation and hooks work hand in hand. I have a couple of jokes for you. I dive into how harmony vocals can be used. What's an interval? We'll see. And we discover Dorion mode! Lots of fun.

In Hits and Hooks Vignettes, we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, and join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Songs:

Anthony Lazaro - Moody Wind (Jamendo Licensing)

Mark Magram - Heatwave (Jamendo Licensing)

Confushian - World keeps turning (Jamendo Licensing)

Dazie Mae - At the Begining of Love (Jamendo Licensing)

Radio Nowhere - Shotgun (Jamendo Licensing)

Darian Blakemore - Your Lovin' (Jamendo Licensing)

Bill Steely - Halfway (Jamendo Licensing)

Michael Ellis - The other World (Jamendo Licensing)

Music Inserts:

Gianluca Luisi - Partita No. 2 - 3. Courante (Jamendo Licensing)

Music-Panda - Designed With Confidence (Jamendo Licensing)

OnClassical - Liszt F. Consolations S.172 - III. Lento placido (Jamendo Licensing)

Olepash - Lazy Hummingbird (Jamendo Licensing)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "The Arrival" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Blue November" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Land Of Homemade Wine" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Angel" (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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Trailer for Episode 5... EQing?! A studio term. We'll dig in on it, in the context of frequency separation. We count out the hook density of a driving road house tune. We look at the complex chords of Jazz. And we map out the basics of Nashville Notation. Oh, and we look at the Latin clave beat. Let's hit the trail.

This is a preview of Episode 5, Hits and Hooks Vignettes, where we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Check out the full episode, and follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, to join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Song Clips in the Trailer:

Chrissy Blazier - Monday All Day (Jamendo Licensing)

Pierre Hunt - Pure Delight (Jamendo Licensing)

moodmode - Screaming Solitude (Jamendo Licensing)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Ride With Speed and Purpose" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, " My Mom She Told Me " (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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EQing?! A studio term. We'll dig in on it, in the context of frequency separation. We count out the hook density of a driving road house tune. We look at the complex chords of Jazz. And we map out the basics of Nashville Notation. Oh, and we look at the Latin clave beat. Let's hit the trail.

In Hits and Hooks Vignettes, we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, and join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Songs:

Chrissy Blazier - Monday All Day (Jamendo Licensing)

Pierre Hunt - Pure Delight (Jamendo Licensing)

moodmode - Screaming Solitude (Jamendo Licensing)

OnClassical - schubert flute and piano. (Jamendo Licensing)

The Sean Moon Band - 12oz of Fun (Jamendo Licensing)

ZeQu - ZeQu - La última curda (Jamendo Licensing)

Wild Fire - Growing Hurts (Jamendo Licensing)

Mayela - Facil (Jamendo Licensing)

Music Inserts:

Clementi-Sonatina No. 1 in C Major - III. Vivace (Musopen)

Kirill Kharchenko - Gregorian Chant (Jamendo Licensing)

Matti Paalanen - Gregorian Chant (Jamendo Licensing)

Omniscenx - Sahara Nights (Jamendo Licensing)

Rachmaninoff-13 Preludes, Op. 32 - 10. Lento, B minor (Musopen, https://musopen.org/music/?composer=sergei-rachmaninoff)

Charlie Ernst - Lost In a Dream (Jamendo Licensing)

Zsmusica - Tema de la lata (Jamendo Licensing)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "The Arrival" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Ride With Speed and Purpose" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, " My Mom She Told Me " (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Add A Little Sweet" (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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This week, 8 more great Indie songs, in full. And we're gonna have a laugh. I'll look at hooks in song openings. We'll spin a good head-banging song. Hip hop is not my generation, but we'll spin one of those too. I'll dig in on beat, virtuosity, and the swing time rhythm of Blues and Jazz.

In Hits and Hooks Vignettes, we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, and join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Songs:

Art Yenta - My Inspiration - EQ (licensed through Jamendo.com)

ilyab - Don't Tear Me (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Ava Della Petra - I've Been Thinking (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Henning Peer Hansen - I Got You By My Side (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Saint Rel - Poland Girl (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Jared Johnson - 4 In the Morn (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Mitch Siegal - I'm Still In Love (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Alan Gillis - Don't (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Music Inserts:

CrowHat - Beethoven Fur Elise (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Samadhi - Tibetan Incantations (live) (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Prelude no. 6 in E flat minor - Gabriel Fauré (licensed through MusOpen.org)

pinegroove - Rainy Day Jazz - 60s (licensed through Jamendo.com)

MFYM - 293 Playful Latin (licensed through Jamendo.com)

Sterrett, Britt, Bates, "Summertime" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Help Me" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Brazilian Workshop 2" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "The Arrival" (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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Love that skank?! This week we look at song bridges, and pads. We see guitar stabs used in a few different styles. I have an interesting Tango song for you, and a beautiful Blues tune with an unusual chord progression. We look at hooks, of course, and touch on fabric and functions. Let's go.

In Hits and Hooks Vignettes, we play some great tunes and lift the hood to see what makes them tick. HHV is a short-form music podcast about how songs keep listeners engaged through hooks, structure, and the subtle musical decisions that quietly do their work.

Follow Hits and Hooks Vignettes, and join me, TuneMoose Matt Bates, for a weekly short walk through musicland! Hits and Hooks Vignettes is produced by Everyone's A Star Records, and hosted by TuneMoose Matt Bates.

Songs:

Songwriterz - Jimmy (Jamendo)

Watercandle - Debajo de las estrellas (Jamendo)

Ava Della Petra - Happy For You (Jamendo)

John Dada & the Weathermen - White Moon (Jamendo)

Brady Harris - Kate Stay Late (Jamendo)

Ed Napoli - Try (Jamendo)

Katilyn - Biggest Fan (Jamendo)

Chrissy Blazier - Mistletoein' (Jamendo)

Music Inserts:

Harpeggio e Fuga in G Major (Musopen)

OnClassical - Satie E. Gymnopédies - I. Lent et douloureux (Jamendo)

BFCmusic - Eyes Of The Duendo (Jamendo)

Relax Cafe Music BGM - Sentimental Mood (Jamendo)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Let It Burn" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Solid Advice" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "Hidden Lane" (Everyone's A Star Records)

TuneMoose Matt Bates, "The Arrival" (Everyone's A Star Records)

Keywords:

music, song analysis, hooks, melody, harmony, rhythm, genre, songwriting, engagement, recording, mixing, production, instruments, performance

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