Lucy's+Composition

Lucy's Composition

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In the beginning of my composition, I decided to use Psalms from the bible to correlate verses reflecting God. I took central concepts such as Jesus dying on the cross to take away our sins and that He is our 'saviour and truth'. Once I had composed lyrics, I began playing around with melodies that I thought would suit the feel of the song. It took me a while to come up with a melody so I came up with some chords that matched small melodies that I had created and then built my song off them. Mr Scully then assisted in recording the guitar chords and lyrics. We then added virtual drums that started off very basic and as the song progressed. After that, I decided that the piece needed a bass line so that was recorded last.
 * Composition Reflection (Holy, Lord) **

If I had a chance I would have liked to add vocal harmony to the piece to create variety and to further build the song in texture, however I do like that it is a vocal solo as I feel it reflects a prayer to God from one voice. However, this piece was written in the style of Hillsong along with some other Christian artists that I found on youtube. It was my desire to compose a piece that wasn't considered sacred art, yet not Christian rock so I went for a style which was laid back and considered easy listening.

Overall, my composition came together quite well. Next time I think I would begin a central idea and then decide on chords first before lyrics as I found it difficult creating a melody without a key.