This session was identical to the previous weeks session and was a continuation of the writing & song development.
From the previous week, we picked up where we left off and worked on connecting the B & C Sections with a transition to make it flow a little more naturally. Duncan put forward a lead line that me & Emrys could support with simple whole note chords. This also worked well in the transition of me going from Lead to Rhythm and makes the change less jarring. We tightened & cleaned everything up with a few run throughs, tying any loose ends, and were only left with the ending to suss out.
Like last week, the half hour of the session was dedicated to performances. I focused a little more on my stage presence this time in preparation for the assessment performance, and I also took a little more time to get a good tone out to perform with. The new additions to the song seemed to be received well and we received some positive feedback, one of which was to work on volumes between us but overall the general idea was to keep doing what we were doing.
We had been keeping Theo up to date with each week and our progress with each performance, & did so with this sessions. He was ready and eager to get to work on editing both the performance footage and the original composition.
Following our Monday session, we booked one last practice later on in the week to finish the writing stages and clean everything up. We added one last section which consisted of Section A the chord progression in reverse, double time over the two bars as opposed to four. This felt more resolved than leaving it on the C Section or trying to reintroduce the A or B section but also made it more relevant to the first half of the song & didn’t feel out of place. Throughout the week I had been writing and gathering lyrics for my section and put the finishing touches on them in this last writing session. Although they were only loosely based on the themes of the song, I feel like I could have done a lot better with them had I spent more time on them and had a broader theme to work with.
HAYDN ALIM - PROGRESSFOLIO 