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HOW TO SCORE A SONG

EFFECTIVELY AS A SINGER
Rev. Michael K. Agyei
Some singers do not understand what it means
to score a song. They think it means listen to a
song and learn the lyrics. No no no!

Introduction
Firstly, scoring a song greatly depends on your
level in music. It requires adept listening of the
technicality of a particular song. You don't score
a song anyhow; it needs ATTENTION and
CONCENTRATION
Introduction

• The fact that you are enjoying the song and


singing along does not mean you have scored
it.

Now the Big Questions are:


1. WHAT IS SCORING OF A SONG?
2. HOW CAN I SCORE A SONG?

• If you can answer the first question, then you


have 70% knowledge of how to answer the
second.
SCORING A SONG
SCORING A SONG
What Is It?

• It is the tenacity and ability of literally knowing how


a song was written, structured, and recorded. You
inversely become the owner, and producer of that
song.

• This means that, you must know the lyrics, the


harmony, melody, rhythm etc. (I will break it down)

• The “HOW-TO” of Scoring a song is explained in the


slides that follow
SCORING A SONG

➢ JUST LISTEN

✓Get your phone or mp3 player listen


to the song, enjoy the melody.
✓Don't start learning it yet.
✓Feel the weight and sweetness of
the song.
✓You can do this once or twice.
SCORING A SONG

➢KNOW THE STRUCTURE OF THE SONG

✓Know how it started either from the intro


to the chorus, from chorus to verse or
vice versa.
✓This will help you achieve a lot at the long
run.
✓This is the first stage of scoring a song.
SCORING A SONG
➢WRITE THE LYRICS

✓Getting the lyrics down on a notebook will help


you when learning the lyrics.

✓I want to warn you. Write down the song by


yourself, I don't advice you to go to internet and
copy and paste. It is good to check it online but
listen to be sure it tallies with what you are
hearing.

✓You maybe hearing VISION and seeing MISSION


online. Be careful about that.
SCORING A SONG
➢LEARN ALL VOCAL PARTS, BREAKS
etc...
✓This is where I sometimes begin to have issues
with my choir. Some will say “I'm an alto singer,
so I scored only the alto part”.

✓My dear you are a SINGER NOT AN ALTO


SINGER. Learn all the parts.

✓Beside singers should know how to swap parts.


Know when each part comes in, and when to
sing MELODIOUSLY OR HARMONIOUSLY.
SCORING A SONG
➢ BE THE LEAD SINGER AND THE BACK
UP SINGERS

✓Try as much as possible to handle the lead


vocal part and the back up.

✓This helps you to correct others even the lead


singer when he or she flops.

✓Learn everything including the ad-libs.


Everything, Everything.
SCORING A SONG

➢LEARN THE INSTRUMENTATION


SOUND

✓Don't say you don't know how to play; my dear


learn the sound.

✓The keyboardist may not get the melody or


solo part. You will tell him, “see! It's not like
that play pi ni ra ra ni. (Lol)”.

✓Knowing the sound arrangement will help you


when singing.
SCORING A SONG

➢SING ALONG

✓You sing alongside with the music even if you


have not or have perfected the song.

✓Try to sing the same thing you hear in the song. I


know voice texture differs but try do it with your
own voice texture.

✓You might be scoring a Tamela Mann song while


your voice texture is like Don Jazzy or Eben. Do it
anyway, but don't go off.
SCORING A SONG
➢TRY TO SING WITHOUT LISTENING OR
PLAYING THE SONG

✓This where you know whether you have been


joking since you started scoring.

✓Most of us tend to sing well with musical


instrument but take the beat away and we
sound whack.

✓My dear, sing the song without playing it. Where


you make mistake play the song and correct
yourself
SCORING A SONG

➢OWN THE SONG

✓I stated earlier that scoring a


song means you are now the
owner, music producer, singer
etc.

✓If you can make the song yours


then you can take it to any level.

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