MED 512. Chapter presentation for Hit Makers.

1. Paul’s Hit Makers Slides

2. According to Hit
Makers chapter 3…

3. What do

7. The

8. answer

9. is

10. as

11. simple

12. as

13. a

14. song

15. “Ask not what
your country
can do for
you. Ask
what you can
do for your
country.”

16. “You can
dance. You
can jive…”

17. It stays in our memory
thanks to

20. Repetition
• Rhythm
• Tone
• Structure

21. Songwriting

22. The author talked about how master
songwriters know how to make a
memorable hook.

23. The words and music repeat rhythm
while the tone repeats, then rises as
in happy birthday:

25. Then our ears like it when the
melody falls:

27. And then rises again and ?:
repeats!

29. Happy Birthday is my own example.
The book explains how it works in…

34. Now

35. that

36. I’ve

37. got you

38. listening to the music in your head,

39. lets talk about the
music in speeches.

40. “Yes
we
can!”

41. “Drill,
baby,
drill!”

42. Political speeches use
devices so that they are
memorable.

43. Such as:

44. Such as:
Repeating words at end of sentence
Repeating a word at beginning and end

45. Mirroring a phrase
Human rights are women’s rights and
women’s rights are human rights.”

46. Masterful writers,
speakers and musicians
all know how to get in
your head and stay there.

47. In fact I used the same
idea of repetition in song
and speech structure
that Chapter 3 discusses
in this presentation.

48. Can you think of how?

49. Review the presentation photos
as a basic song structure like
happy birthday.