Wendy
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Music activities 12-Apr-2018 14:55:19
| CorrsClub Time: 26-Apr-2024 16:55:40 |
Ah! I have some skeletal demos - I'll email you a private link tomorrow!
My band's performance of Runaway last night was so rough! I'm not sure if anyone filmed it. But we're playing again in a week so at the very least I might be able to get a voice memo recording of a rehearsal.
My friend Susanna O'Leary (aka Zannah) has been singing the lead vocal on it. We also sing this Celtic-sounding song by her.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Gre3iESAfMVTSsZUv5Pys?si=blxWHiFyStSgLLIGSYAtMw
Thanks for sharing your music - it's nice to hear some jazz/complex chords!
Hmm...difficult for me to comment as I'm certainly not a composition teacher! There's one thing I could point out - and I say this because I tend to do it myself. I've been to a few masterclasses by the songwriting teacher Pat Pattison, and he often says "motion creates emotion". Obviously it's good to set up your musical idea and repeat it a few times so the listener is familiar with it, but then it's good to vary where the accents are. I'm just referring to vocal rhythm of In Flanders Field - and I know you've varied it a bit in the chorus part, but you might even be able to do that in the third or fourth line of the verses. For example, there is a strong accent on the third beat of each verse phrase, but perhaps the accent could be on a different beat in the third phrase (returning to the original in the fourth phrase), or trying the variation in the fourth phrase. I've been thinking about that concept a lot lately and trying to analyse what other songs do. Also, you might not need those 2/4 bars every time, but I'm guessing that was a stylistic choice.
Anyway - I know you like to analyse music, so you might really enjoy Pat's book (Writing Better Lyrics) or his workshops. He teaches at Berklee but he runs workshops around the world. His method got me thinking about music in a whole different way, and I'm so much better at listening to a piece of music and understanding why it works or why it doesn't work. It's more of a Nashville style of writing that he teaches - as in, very descriptive lyrics, singing lyrics using similar rhythms/melodies as you'd say them etc. But the concepts can still be used to say, understand what Bjork does.
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