Oh dear. I think I’m going to fail FAWM.

Well, I’ve written 10 songs I wouldn’t have otherwise, so that’s not exactly failure is it? But I’m not going to hit fourteen and a half, simply because I’m running out of time!

Here are the last two songs. I’m particularly proud of ‘Where Once They Had Hearts’.

Ideas to steal from them:

• An ostinato that stays the same while the chords change (E Fsharp Gsharp in ‘In the cellar at number 33′).
• Climaxing on a chromatic chord (the first chord in the chorus of ‘Where once they had Hearts’ isn’t in the mode that the rest of the song is in)

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Where Once they had Hearts

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In the Cellar at Number 33

I’m going to sum up what I’ve learned from my first FAWM adventure in this weekend’s post.

Related posts:

1. Two more Fawm Songs
2. Second FAWM song
3. First song on FAWM.org – I may have taken leave of my senses
4. Episode 4 -Song development
5. Basics – how time signatures work.