http://singaboutscience.org/wp/2011/07/13/feedback-not-just-squealing-noises-from-loudspeakers/ Songs for teaching, learning & fun. Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:43:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 http://singaboutscience.org/wp/2011/07/13/feedback-not-just-squealing-noises-from-loudspeakers/#comment-35 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:31:08 +0000 http://singaboutscience.org/blog/?p=620#comment-35 […] final challenge, as previously mentioned, was finding someone willing and able to create a polished arrangement and recording from my lyrics […]

]]> http://singaboutscience.org/wp/2011/07/13/feedback-not-just-squealing-noises-from-loudspeakers/#comment-34 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:00:57 +0000 http://singaboutscience.org/blog/?p=620#comment-34 I go to a monthly song-writing workshop. It has been my experience that people at those workshops are generally “too nice” in their critiques of works presented, for a variety of reasons, but mostly it is art, and in art different things will appeal to different people. My son plays bass guitar in the rock band Lexigram, and while I have tried real hard to like their music, it is difficult for me. But they are popular in Denver because there are folks who like their music. I just wrote a song about Henrietta Lacks for an event coming up in September because the 3 songs I found on the internet about her I didn’t like; but they all had reviews praising them. Nonetheless, I have visited with Monty in Stillwater OK a few times and got his feedback on songs I was working on, and his critiques are a lot more useful than most of what I get at the song-writers workshops (which I now view as more of a performance practicing opportunity and not necessarily for improvement [unless I have a specific question like “I need a good rhyme here”]. And as my grandfather (a university president at one time) used to say: “In education a good joke or song is worth a thousand words—-and a bad joke or song is worth 10,000 words.” Because oftentimes when students get home, the thing they are most likely to remember is the stupidest thing that happened at school that day.

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