Saturday, 28 April 2012

Planning out two ideas first..

I was going through the songs I wrote, one of which I sent to the DMAT record label last time and I remember Gerald mentioned this singer songwriter Janis Ian. I then realized I don't really know what genre my piece was and I was a bit troubled with how to arrange it. So I researched further and I think for my pod1 work I would make it pretty simple as I wanted to focus on composition, and arrange one of my songs, Falling Apart (the one I sent to the label) into a indie folk piece.
The instruments I plan to include would be acoustic guitar(layers), kick and tambourine, maybe piano, strings and there would be vocal harmonies. It would focus more on vocals, songwriting, composition and the vocal voicings.

I find it hard to find something that I can follow for this song I wrote but here are some:
Daughter- Landfill
Lucy Rose- Night Bus
James Vincent McMorrow- We Don't Eat
Bon Iver- Michicant (the vocal harmonies)
Fleet Foxes- White Winter Hymnal (arrangement)

I realized how most of my songs sound alike (boring acoustic folk style? I don't really know what kind of genre too) and it was hard for me to rearrange it into something different. Then I decided to use one of my songs, Grow Old With Me, as I felt that this song could be turned into a pop song.
I would use instruments like strings, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, synthesizers, drums. I want to arrange it from a slow starting to a more upbeat rhythm. This work would focus on recording, composition and arrangement.

Here are some songs:
AJ Rafael- Without You (transition from slow until drums come with interlude)
Kate McGill- The Key & Replaced
Kina Grannis- It's Love
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Indie folk & Pop confusion

So from the last post, I was talking about how I'm afraid that my two ideas must sound similar. I've got a couple of songs in mind that I wrote before but I'm not sure how do I arrange them so that they would portray that certain genre.

Like for indie folk arrangement, is just having guitar and vocal harmonies portray that genre? Or what instruments should I use? And 'cos of the melody for one of my song I wrote for pod, I'm not sure if it sounds like indie folk too.
Is this pop or indie folk or what genre is this? Mree- Atmosphere http://youtu.be/cwvB1IKoDBs

Hmm and just another idea for my pod, I was thinking of linking both songs together. Like the ending of pod1 work would link to the next work!

Shall research more...
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Monday, 23 April 2012

Contemplating...

I was just re-thinking about my 4 proposal ideas. I don't feel that they are strong ideas and the indie/acoustic folk and pop song that I have in mind are rather similar...

Under Pop: Kina Grannis- Heart and Mind (http://youtu.be/qtPqhOMu0jA)
Under Indie/Acoustic Folk: Kina Grannis- Stay Just A Little (http://youtu.be/lTc83qVy4O4)

I really love Kina Grannis and I decided to follow her songwriting/composing steps for POD :) But I'm having trouble differentiating the two genres that I had in mind (above).
I'm afraid that I would end up doing two songs sounding similar, which I don't really want 'cos I want the two works to be unique in their ways.

Hopefully, I'll come up with better ideas. In the meantime, listen to more songs! ;)

(update)
I could do something like Michelle Branch- Breathe too... Or Kina Grannis- Without Me... Hahahaha Kina Grannis again :P
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Friday, 20 April 2012

Proposal Ideas

This are the first 4 ideas that I came up with for POD:

1. Indie/acoustic folk music (acoustic guitar, harmonies)

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2. Pop 

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3. Instrumentals (MIDI synthesizers ES1, ES2, Sculpture and recorded drums/guitar/bass etc)

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4. Music Therapy research
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