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)
[audio=http://www.wellwrite.co.uk/songwright/tomslatter_whereoncetheyhadhearts.mp3]
Where Once they had Hearts
[audio=http://www.wellwrite.co.uk/songwright/tomslatter_inthecellaratnumber33.mp3]
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.
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