{"id":29,"date":"2009-02-26T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:51:36","slug":"songwriting-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/songwriting-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Songwriting Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been an interesting challenge on Facebook in the last while, one that I participated in myself and found kind of fun.\u00a0 And as I did it, I thought that with a couple of moderations, it would make a good songwriting exercise to stir up your creative juices.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge involved going to websites like Wikipedia and the Quotations Page and then Flickr to pick random names and quotes and photos to create an album cover.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to put in a twist.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what you do:<\/p>\n<p>1. Go to Wikipedia and hit random, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\">here<\/a> The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your song<\/p>\n<p>2. Go to Random quotations page, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3\"> here<\/a>. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is a phrase that has to appear in your song<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s my addition:<\/p>\n<p>3. Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotfrets.com\/songanator.asp\">HotFrets Chord Progression Generator<\/a>. Pick a key, a progression and a style and generate a chord progression to try out on your guitar or piano<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it!\u00a0 See what you come up with.\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>IJ<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been an interesting challenge on Facebook in the last while, one that I participated in myself and found kind of fun.\u00a0 And as I did it, I thought that with a couple of moderations, it would make a good songwriting exercise to stir up your creative juices. The challenge involved going to websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31,32,4],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-exercises","tag-exercise","tag-ijs-songwriting-forum","tag-songwriting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prwoq-t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}