A Reflection

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So I hit a major wall in the last month. I've been trying to get my first home since February, no luck cause people are bidding ludicrous amounts more than me. Given the fact the fact I live in a family of 7, work from home and the only place I can work is in an attic that has no windows in the middle of a heatwave it's a bit of a bummer.

Then I've been trying to get a driving for the past year but thanks to you know what there's been no tests available and then my driving theory expired. So I had to sit it again and trying to get that was an issue too.

Then the straw that broke the camels back was thatt my girlfriend left me after 6 years. There was no shouting or anything like that. It was calm. We laughed about the past and cried about the present, a "nice" way to break up I suppose.

But after that I was pretty done. I didn't want to do much of anything especially write music. Every time I sat at the piano there was just an empty void.

So, last night I decided to watch one of Mike's videos which normally gets me back up and running when I start to feel low. Sure enough, that did the job. I left a note on my computer saying "you have emotions, use them" and got down this sketch.

It might not be perfect yet, but hopefully there's something in there and hopefully when I start the orchestration it will be something special that I can be proud of.

Would really appreciate any feedback you all have. I hope that there's something in this one and that there's something there that you enjoy.

 

Thanks Michael, I really appreciate it and I'm glad the emotions came through in the piece.

I had the idea of it being piano and strings mostly. I don't think I'd add anything else to it. Maybe not even a whole string section but maybe just a quartet. But maybe you're right, adding other instruments might make it feel a little less delicate.

Feels good to be writing again.

 

Never been great at writing lyrics. I'm tempted to revisit this later down the road. Might experiment with this theme a little more and change the instrumentation but treat it as a completely seperate piece from this. Change the structure and tone etc. Instead of a sombre tone it could be a bit more colourful and happy, add a counter melody to represent 2 characters instead of just 1 and tell a different story with it.

 

Just made an attempt to write this down in musescore. I think for a first attempt at writing my music down it's not too bad. Haven't added dynamic marking etc yet. Have I got most of this down right? Anything I should do to clean it up?