I have been married more than 35 years to the only math teacher I’ve ever had a crush on. Cindi and I met on a blind date, and I bought the ring two weeks later. We have been blessed with three children: Allison, Anna, and Sam who each bring a unique passion for life and are...
Each time you sit down to make a song, your goal shouldn’t be to write a hit. Rather, your goal should simply be to practice songwriting. The hit song will be a nice byproduct—something you’ll accidentally find under a pile of mediocre ones....
First, I'll make sure you know the chords. I'll show them to you and tell you the exact fingerings. No guesswork.I break down every song down into its essential components, such as the "verse", and the "chorus" and I give you the exact chord progressions for each part. You get ...
“This is one of those moments where we just need to step back and count our blessings…. We need to think less about taking sides and fighting each other politically, and just pulling together. This House, and the whole country, stands with the Parkland community.” ...
When orchestras start sounding indistinguishable from each other, it dilutes the unique cultural identities they’re meant to uphold. “Innovation” as a Cost-Cutting Excuse Institutions may frame AI use as “forward-thinking,” when in reality it may be about cutting corners, saving budget, or...
Cosine Similarity: this is a general method to compare the similarity of two vectors. So if our model predicted “happy”, and the original lyrics had the word “smile”, we take the vector of each word from the embedding matrix and calculate the cosine similarity, 1 being the best and ...
The half-brothers’ relationship had hung on Burns’ mental condition. While Burns had stayed at Haddon Hall in 1970, he’d begun to deteriorate by the time ofHunky Dory. Yet to consider “Bewlay Brothers” to be directly autobiographical, to parse each line for clues about a summer that ...
For the purposes of this lesson, you need to know that we can take each of the seven notes in a major scale and build a chord off of each note using the other notes in the scale. I’m not going to get into the theory of how those chords are built, but the most important thing...
“What's up? Been a minute since we kicked it, you've been caught up / With them bitches, I don't get it, you're a star, love.” The song starts with what it seems like a conversation between someone who used to be in a relationship and they just ran into each other after a...
Lyric’s advanced syllable counter allows you to maintain rhythm for your writing. It displays syllable counts for each line of your song on the left side of the screen. Measure Mode: Sync with the Beat Perfect your timing with Measure Mode, which breaks your lyrics into quarter measures. Us...