Songwriting 101, by Maestro Ryan Cayabyab

Paano nga ba gumawa ng kanta? Now that a new songwriting competition is up (the first-ever PhilPOP), hopefully to enrich Original Pilipino Music the way the late Metropop Music Festival did, here's something that should interest songwriters and plain music lovers alike: a lighthearted yet instructive look at how someone like Ryan Cayabyab--a giant in Philippine music and a prime mover of PhilPOP--creates his songs. Janno Gibbs plays the young Cayabyab composing one of his enduring masterpieces, Tuwing Umuulan at Kapiling Ka, in this segment from the concert Ryan Cayabyab: The MusicMan@50, held at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, in 2005.