Steven Wilson: Common Songwriting Mistake

<p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OErumR857yY" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/OErumR857yY/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OErumR857yY?rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="450" width="800" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p> <p> </p> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">Steven Wilson: Common Songwriting Mistake</span></strong></h2> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">“Nowadays, with so much music being written on the computer, we’ve lost that natural push and pull that an ensemble and a band will have if they’re playing outside of a tempo map. A lot of modern music tends to get stuck in that single tempo across the duration of a piece of music.” –Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>WELCOME</strong></span></h3> <p style="text-align: justify;">Hello revolutionary music makers, we are Kate and Ray Harmony (AKA Revolution Harmony), and welcome to Hack Music Theory, the fast, easy and fun way to make music! If you’re new to theory, or if you just want a refresher, then read our free book "12 Music Theory Hacks to Learn Scales &amp; Chords". It’ll give you a super solid music theory foundation in just 30 minutes. The free download is below. Enjoy!</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">HACK</span></strong></h3> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Steven Wilson’s tempo hack:</strong></p> <ol> <li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>write song with tempo track</strong></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>record without tempo track</strong></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>analyze natural push &amp; pull</strong></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>create "natural" tempo map</strong></li> <li style="tex