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Hey Jean,
I'm new on the forum, though not a new songwriter. I'm definitely going to try and get a couple mp3's up. I've done a few different exercises like this that were really fun and helpful to break out of melody ruts. I did one once where we took just the syllabic scansion of any tune you want and change the melody/lyric. We took "Yellow" by Coldplay, sped it way up, swapped the melody contour for the verse and chorus and rewrote the lyric. Really gratifying way to get a simple tune out of an hour or two. I've also done one where you take three chords and come up with a melody using all chord tones, and then one with all non-chord tones and then combine.
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