The day has flown. I started the day by listing another painting on Saatchi Art, having learned that I'll be a 'featured artist' next week. This is so nice; my profile there has less than 10 followers, it was dormant for a few years, but last year I started to add new works and focus more on it. I need a break like this. Contrast Saatchi with Society 6 which simply closed my account without so much as a single snippet of help, despite being more popular terms of hits and likes.
I've spent most of the day working on the melody and words of a song called 'More'. The words are deceptively simple, but have taken all day to craft into shape. Sometimes there is a difference in choice of words for a song vs poem. One line was 'To stop the worry'; this works well poetically, I changed it to 'To stop the panic', as it has a more music in it. The 'aah' vowel on 'panic' is nicer than the muddy 'orr' of 'worry', and the staccato p and c sounds add punch and drama to the sound.
The song has a Beethoven's 5th rhythm of xxxX with the last note being the first of the bar. I used the opportunity to try to simplify everything, and make the bass more of an incessant chug, which matches the meaning of the song, an endless trawl for more.
I wanted the chorus to climb and seek, so it rises in key and has a few unusual chords. The song is in my commonest key of A-minor, breaking into F-Major for the chorus (my commonest break too), but then switches to Bb, then B, D#-sus7 and D#, then G# before bending back to E-Major and A again. The effect is as I'd hoped.
