This is my second "complete" song in English. Anyway, this is my 5th week and 6th week assignment. I have completed my course! Guess I will get my overall result in December. :)
It was actually 3.8 km, based on some what true story. And this is the 3rd song about it. Anyway, I found it weird to sing 3.8 km. Though 1.8 miles sound weird as well, but not sound as as so mathematically as 3.8 km gua. ^^ 1.8 miles is not exactly same as 3.8 km too, just an "estimated" value.
Week 5 was on creating a new song, considering the idea "propagation", rhyme scheme, rhythm of the song, and the melody, full flow of a song writing! Frankly, I didn't actually do the adjusting the note for stability/instability. In fact, my original solution to get the song done on last Wednesday night (within the few hours) by using one of my other song's melody to fit into the lyrics. Anyway, finally the melody flows into my mind right after I played guitar on the same chord progression for a while.
Due to last minutes, I didn't have luxury time to do more recordings to get a better one, but I don't think I can improve much for the recording too. ^^
As I did this assignment, I didn't realize that week 6 would further develop the melody part of the song. It's focusing on the strong beat/weak beat, strong/weak bar, again, stability/instability. :D
So, to get the stability/instability feel that it "should" be, the song turn into this.
Does it sound "stable" on the first 2 verses and the bridge, and "instable" on the last verse? I didn't have time really to listen to it yet. Hopefully, I can work on this song further later... After I catch up with all other courses... maybe next year? :D
OK, I completed this course. Hopefully I can enroll in the capstone project next year to complete this specialization.
2014年11月16日星期日
Song writing journey
Just completed my 4th assignment on a song writing course on Wednesday night. I was supposed to use my assignment 3 submission, to identify the stressed and unstressed syllables in this assignment. However, I got quite low mark for that, and after reading the comments from peer, I think I really didn't do well. So, I decided to redo a new lyrics.
Assignment 3 was to have a stable verse and an unstable chorus by using rhyme scheme. So, started from scratch again.
Started with "Hot sun in the afternoon, I'll know I'll see you soon." That was for the rhyme purpose for stable verse. :D
Was thinking of, shall I make it a love song? Nah... too lame. Then, think of my a few bad moments of the week, I decided to turn the lyrics into this. OK, I didn't follow the suggested tools, like boxes of progression and stuffs to construct this but, alas, time was ticking and I have to complete this before deadline.
Here's the lyrics.
Verse :
Chorus :
The chorus originally quite stable, because I had it for 6 lines. I repeated the first line on the 4th line, then continue with the "If you don't...". My last line was "So stop being mean to me". This added to the stability of the chorus.
After recorded and listen to it a few times, I just found this miss. So, this is my final submission. Not sure about the score yet. I'll know when I reach office tomorrow.
The recording actually sounded weird to me. I should be reading normally, but was affected by the drum beat and try to stressed according to what I wrote.
Anyway, this records a milestone for me because, I "completed" my 2nd work book of my song writing! I am going to start my 3rd song writing work book soon!
P/S: This song also serves to remind me, don't be so mean.
Assignment 3 was to have a stable verse and an unstable chorus by using rhyme scheme. So, started from scratch again.
Started with "Hot sun in the afternoon, I'll know I'll see you soon." That was for the rhyme purpose for stable verse. :D
Was thinking of, shall I make it a love song? Nah... too lame. Then, think of my a few bad moments of the week, I decided to turn the lyrics into this. OK, I didn't follow the suggested tools, like boxes of progression and stuffs to construct this but, alas, time was ticking and I have to complete this before deadline.
Here's the lyrics.
Verse :
Chorus :
The chorus originally quite stable, because I had it for 6 lines. I repeated the first line on the 4th line, then continue with the "If you don't...". My last line was "So stop being mean to me". This added to the stability of the chorus.
After recorded and listen to it a few times, I just found this miss. So, this is my final submission. Not sure about the score yet. I'll know when I reach office tomorrow.
The recording actually sounded weird to me. I should be reading normally, but was affected by the drum beat and try to stressed according to what I wrote.
Anyway, this records a milestone for me because, I "completed" my 2nd work book of my song writing! I am going to start my 3rd song writing work book soon!
P/S: This song also serves to remind me, don't be so mean.
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