Week 13 - Free time!!

This week, we spent the lesson working on our project. I was able to create some chord progressions for the first 12 bars of the song!! As I am working with a partner (Josephine Smith), I shared my progress with her. She offered suggestions that would make the instrumental have more sense alongside the story.

We used Sibelius to draft an outline of the basic structure

song with chords till bar 12 first draft.pdf

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I originally used a G major chord for the first chord, however the beginning of the song is quite sad – the “failure” – the start of our protagonist’s journey. It cannot begin with a full rich major chord. So I changed it to a b minor chord. Another thing my partner suggested was to change the rhythm of the chord progression of bar 1-3. So the second chord was on the + of the 3 beat (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +) but again, it does no match the “failure,” because it was too energetic. So, I moved it back to beat 3. It sounds great!

More of my progress is in the project section :)