EPISODE · Feb 10, 2026 · 13 MIN
The Beyond Vocab Incantations
from Love Music More (with Scoobert Doobert) · host Scoobert Doobert
Is it a vocab word? Or a magic one? What does a musician do when you tell them, we need an ostinato. Or this part is the big crescendo? Or I want a call-and-response kinda vibe.They shift. They reach into a different bag. You get a different song. So much of production and artistry is knowing where to lead, how to communicate vision, and yes, which spell to cast. Let’s go through a few of my favorites.For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛Something like a backbeat or ghost notes. Able to reach into the bag of tricks. To do stuff. Indicate something in music. Form and structure. Connected to the melody. Falling into the next note. Back and forth. Compacting context, compacting meaning. Able to compress. Able to capture the right kind of vibe A certain kind. Really specific. The choice of vocabulary. Flowy. The acuity of speech. Very much get on the same page. A call and response thing. Specific words. Articulations and dynamics. A grace note. Developing this melody and recapitulating it. A hemiola. Transients. Fuzzy edges. Schwoopy. Frame of reference. Mindset, emotion, style. 🪞Podcast Produced by Beformer
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Is it a vocab word? Or a magic one? What does a musician do when you tell them, we need an ostinato. Or this part is the big crescendo? Or I want a call-and-response kinda vibe.They shift. They reach into a different bag. You get a different song. So much of production and artistry is knowing where to lead, how to communicate vision, and yes, which spell to cast. Let’s go through a few of my favorites.For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛Something like a backbeat or ghost notes. Able to reach into the bag of tricks. To do stuff. Indicate something in music. Form and structure. Connected to the melody. Falling into the next note. Back and forth. Compacting context, compacting meaning. Able to compress. Able to capture the right kind of vibe A certain kind. Really specific. The choice of vocabulary. Flowy. The acuity of speech. Very much get on the same page. A call and response thing. Specific words. Articulations and dynamics. A grace note. Developing this melody and recapitulating it. A hemiola. Transients. Fuzzy edges. Schwoopy. Frame of reference. Mindset, emotion, style. 🪞Podcast Produced by Beformer
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