Written Song

Nat and I were given a piece of text to work off, it is a Speech from Martin Luther King Jr.' I've been to the mountain top. I've Looked over, and I've seen the promised land. i may not get there with you. but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.' and had to create a song based on this piece of text, to start we looked at the flow to the text and split it up into sections and created a sort of narrative to the song. 

I worked on the idea of the promised land and what this might be to some people and i started by using the first line 'I've been to the mountain top' and changed it to 'i've climbed the tallest mountain and swam the farthest sea' i thought that this was a good place to start from, the lyrics created don't have a verse chorus style of writing but more of a narrative story, I chose this style because I thought it worked better with the stimulus we were given to work with because in my opinion the speech has a beginning middle and end. 

We both found it hard to create a tune or melody behind the lyrics as neither of us can play an instrument but if I continue to work on this song I think the chord added will be simple because I think that the lyrics are quite sad and full of emotion and I don't want that to be lost when adding music.

  I've Climbed the highest Mountains,

I've swam the Farthest seas,

Just to find the promised land 

To have you next to me 

  I don't know when I'll get there,

and I really don't Know how 

I just know that when I do 

you'll be helping me though

  I know I must travel this journey alone

but when i reach the promised land 

after my time here has ended 

you'll be at those gates guiding me by the hand 

  I've spend so long on this earth 

waiting for this day 

the day I get to meet you again 

soon I hope and pray

  now I have reached my last day 

my journeys's finally though

I can see the promised land 

and with it you 

  I questioned why you were taken from me 

every single day 

but now  know they needed you 

to give a hand and say 

  'you have finally reached the promised land

 your journeys almost though,

 take my hand and let me

 guide you to something new.

We received feedback and advice from the group this is the good :

 we had a good interpretation of the text that we were given, 

a good concept,

Ability to make music 

Gorgeous Lyrics 

the improvements and advice was that:

we should add rhythm

when using chords we should used minor chords

 some of the lyrics need to be changed to fit with the rhythm and melody

'pop some cords on and improvise'

add instruments and melody.

This year I want to expand my experience and my skills in music, I want to learn to play the Guitar as I feel as if I don’t have much to offer in the way of musical creation.

I am looking forward to learning a new instrument and creating music, I really enjoyed creating lyrics and I realised how difficult it is to write a song in full, I found it hard to write a tune as I don't play an instrument, this is one reason I want to learn the guitar.

I also want to learn basic piano skills and try my hand at different instruments.