In A24's latest screenplay book, Celine Song's luminous 2023 gem is further examined and unpacked. Read the full excerpt.

Jesse Colin Young, who sang one of the signature songs of the 1960s counterculture, the Youngbloods’ “Get Together,” before ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

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They all have DYNAMITE chord progressions. Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel and the Beatles are right up there with Gershwin and Rogers and Hammerstein, in my book. How can you write like them? Watch and see.

So the chords I write with aren’t the most technical, wanky chord progressions. “That’s what I depend on, trying to find a melody that brings something to life. I think there is a beauty in ...