Q: I love your "harmonizing the weather lady" video and "the high class stuff" video. I want to try doing something similar (mimicking speech with music).. I think that would be a cool way to incorporate spoken word parts in songs.. but I can't seem to get the hang of it. Any tips? What was your process when writing the music to those videos?
A: start by deciding what the melody is. spoken language can be ambiguous, a lot of in between notes, a lot of bending slurs, a lot of totally ghost notes with no pitch. make a decision on what every note is. then go in and start having fun with the chords