TERM 1 - Arrangement Ideas/Overall Sound For The Song.

Here is a photo of my notes for some arrangement ideas I wrote out last week. At first I wanted the song to start off with just acoustic guitar, but after talking to George in our Songcraft lesson, I decided it would be way better to have the whole band come in at the beginning, with a repeated riff over the top to catch the listeners ear and immediately let them recognise the song; similarly to High and Dry by Radiohead (Yorke, 1995).

We also thought that skipping beat one on the first bar in the second verse would work nicely to vary up the song, create more excitement/alteration in the track and keep the listener on their toes.

Here is a link to the video of the run we did after introducing some of these elements into the track:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A75rhv5U_1lOa39mUdCWhJ43O7U-MKWj/view?usp=sharing

It all worked really nicely, we took the slightly variated line of the melody in the verse and translated it onto the guitar for the introducing hook. This worked perfectly as I only sing this melody line once in the verse, as the rest of the lines go down. It means that when I go to sing this line, the audience is already familiar with this variation but wasn't necessarily expecting to hear it on the vocals. This adds further to the idea of 'confusion and uncertainty within what you perceive to be true or not' that I am trying to create for the listener. 

The only thing that needs to change is the half time drums we introduced in the Pre-Chorus section. Despite them being a great idea, whilst performing it and listening back to it, I felt as if it was slowing down the natural flow of the track and was making the section sound sluggish. Therefore, I have decided we should keep the original drum idea, but maybe add some cymbal crashes on the word "Back" during the bit where I sing "Back, do you want it back? Do you want it back?..." to bring out the floaty, dreamy feel I want to get across.