#141 - Making "note" of my musical accomplishments. Hur hur.

[reileen]

"Queen of Denial" is mostly performable by now. Finally. I've had that thing sitting around for at least a year. I'm still trying to clean up the accompaniment for the stanza melody parts, but if forced to play this song at gunpoint, I could wing it with simple block chords.

For "Between the Lines," I managed to:

1) fill in missing lyrics
2) choose a key (E major) and a palette of chords
3) create a musical motif, and
4) drafted out the melodic structure of the song!

\o/

Which is pretty impressive considering that I didn't have anything for it a few days ago except for the incomplete lyrics. It sucks, though, 'cause the chorus melody is an upward movement based on the E chord, so I eventually end up singing at the E two octaves above middle C. And the D# right below it. Oh, well, at least I have an excuse to practice getting at those high notes.

Also, in-between waffling around on "Queen of Denial" and "Between the Lines," I ended up figuring out the chords to "Lucky" by Britney Spears. Unexpected/10. Although that was actually a favorite song of mine back when it was still being played on the radio.

-Reileen
there's the wind, and the rain, and the mercy of the fallen