Seven Steps to Heaven: Exploration and Determination of the Elements of an Artistic Career in All Its Dimensions
Abstract
My objective for this project was to develop songwriting skills by engaging with the pure craft of composing songs. Being able to write anything that is asked of me, and by writing different kinds of music, thereby creating my own artistic identity. This is important to me because I want to be a professional songwriter, the kind that can write for other people. If somebody asks me for a song and they send me a reference track, I can break the song down and see what ‘bricks’ I can use from that song to make it feel the same. That’s why, for this project, I’ve chosen 5 songs that have made who I am today as a writer and musician, and analyzed those 5 songs. I wanted to see what made them so attractive to me, why they have this power to get me every time I hear them. What makes these songs great?
Publication Date
7-1-2016
Campus
Valencia (Spain) Campus
Recommended Citation
Montañez, Manuel. “Seven Steps to Heaven: Exploration and Determination of the Elements of an Artistic Career in All Its Dimensions.” Master's thesis, Berklee College of Music, 2016. https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-contemporary-performance/57.
Comments
Project Components: paper (.pdf), presentation (.pdf).