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The band Breakin Benjamin started out local to me, I even shared the same practice space as a few of their members years ago. I talked with some of them at one point but I forget which members.

I like to study music and I am able to find formulas in the music of most bands. I thought it would be interesting to share my studies with you guys and let you see how I see things from a compositional analysis standpoint.

Firstly I will take a few songs that are big radio hits and within a few passes of the songs I discover and plot out the bands “formula”. This is a good way to learn about composition and how things fit together in a song. I would not suggest directly ripping off the formula of a band because you will end up sounding a lot like them in most cases. No one likes a copycat. (Ex: How Saving Abel is 100% copying Three Doors Down’s formula…listen to “18 days” from saving abel and then just about any recent Three Doors Down song.)

Here is how I do it:
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This is part five of the beginner music theory lesson:

This is part four of the music theory lesson for beginners:

Part three of the music theory lessons on guitar. Make sure you watch the other parts so you can be ready for this one.

This was split into two videos because of time restrictions on youtube. Make sure you have mastered the information from part one before moving on to this lesson.

and section two of this lesson…