Accessories

• Timbre first writing—preparing instruments and designing noise
• Graphic scores and performer freedom that still feels intentional
• Recording wild sounds safely and integrating them musically
• Text strategies: cut‑ups, constraints, and semantic drift
• Micro‑form: gestures, cells, and contrast without verse/chorus
• Concept > gimmick: building a system that generates surprises

• Artists pushing limits—noise-makers, art‑pop rebels, theatre composers

• Graphic score stencils
• Session routing blueprints
• Constraint cards
• Consent & safety notes for extreme sounds

Compose shadowy stories that tease, mislead, and satisfy. Build puzzle box verses, breadcrumb pre choruses, and reveals that click. Use harmony for doubt and rhythm for pulse. Keep clues fair and images sharp.

• Unreliable narrator tools and perspective shifts
• Motif design for secret knocks and coded riffs
• Minor mode palettes with luminous relief points
• Sound design for footsteps, doors, and late night air
• Endings that twist without breaking trust

You get: Plot maps, clue lists, hook templates, and tension charts. Outcome: Songs listeners replay to solve and to feel.

Turn modern hits into tavern bangers. Or write originals that sound parchment fresh. Use modes, drone strings, and hand drums. Translate slang into courtly wit. Keep melodies singable by villagers and kings. Make the hall echo without losing groove.

• Mode maps for dorian, mixolydian, and aeolian
• Lute, harp, flute, and frame drum roles
• Period friendly rhyme and medieval metaphors
• Arrangements for verse cycles and refrain rounds
• Recording tips for candlelit space and chorus lines

You get: Instrument guides, lyric glossaries, and set-piece templates. Outcome: Court approved jams with tavern ready hooks.

• Comping that leaves space for the story
• Solo structure—motifs, development, release
• Blues forms, rhythm changes, and reharm basics
• Lyric cool: subtext, irony, and winked punchlines
• Phrasing over swing vs straight feels
• Ending tags and codas that feel classic

• Vocalists and bands blending tradition with fresh stories

• Form maps
• Motif practice prompts
• Rhyme colour palettes
• Coda/ending cheat sheet

• Harmonic patience—modal drones and slow turns
• Field recording ethics and musicality
• Mastering quiet music that still translates
• Writing with texture: pads, tape loops, and granular beds
• Titles and liner notes that frame the feeling
• Long‑form structure for focus and calm

• Composers and producers making spacious, thoughtful sound worlds

• Long‑form arrangement stencils
• Low‑level mastering guide
• Texture recipe cards
• Field recording checklist

• Setlist pacing and key flow
• Chorus design for shout‑back moments
• Riff writing and modal flavours that stick
• Recording loud without a blanket of fizz
• Lyric realism—scene details over abstract angst
• Arranging for three‑piece vs five‑piece clarity

• Bands and writers chasing catharsis with modern punch

• Riff starters
• Chorus chant templates
• Tone‑taming mix guide
• Lyric scene prompts