Q: Hey Bill, how can I learn to modulate effectively? I mean I can learn chord progressions and how someone else does it, but for some reason when I try to integrate such an example into my own song, it doesn't work with what I wrote previously in the song. Maybe I'm doing something melodically and rhythmically and structually incorrect? Thanks
A: focus on where this desire to modulate might be coming from. it likely stems from certain ones, maybe just one, that blew your mind so well that it made you keep trying to do it. figure out which one(s) that was, and you'll just have to look at them again closer. just use those ones until you hear anything else better. also just spend a lot of time with the instrument, by an open window