{"id":413,"date":"2013-04-20T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2013-10-19T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T01:10:28","slug":"todays-songwriting-tip-staccato-legato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/todays-songwriting-tip-staccato-legato\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Songwriting Tip | Staccato &#038; Legato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combining opposite patterns like staccato and legato (separated or connected notes) can be a very effective song-crafting tactic. If you&#8217;re using long-held chords, consider a shorter or punchier vocal line. Writing a polyrhythmic bass line? A good option could be to complement it with a simpler, more straightforward guitar part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/songwriting-technique.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-414\" alt=\"songwriting technique\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/songwriting-technique.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining opposite patterns like staccato and legato (separated or connected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-6F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}