Due to us not getting far in rehearsals and having to keep changing our idea I thought I'd use initiative and have a rehearsal by myself to try and come up with a skeleton of a piece for us to work with and improve upon. I was unable to rehearse with the others due to illness and knew it'd be easier to come up with the bare bones by myself. I decided it'd be easier to go down the Charleston route due to the brief given as this would be easier to make comical and Musical Theatre style. I based the chord sequence on major chords to also give it the comical, cheesy, bright effect we were looking for to convey the story and then played the following the rhythm pattern of common Charleston songs, adapting it slightly to make it original. With this basic chord sequence and rhythm I began to come up with some basic lyrics and the melody that these would be sung to, keeping it quite simple so that we could either just keep it the same and focus on layering it with harmonies or changing the melody to make it more interesting and engaging. Or finding a balance between the two. This has been a really effective rehearsal because it now gives us something to work with where as before we didn't really have anything and kept fluttering between ideas. This has allowed us to have a basic idea to then expand upon. At the moment I am aware it has aspects of a 50's Doo-wop style so I'm hoping to look into jazz piano playing of the 20's and 30's so that I can hopefully add a left hand piano part that will make it sound more of this era.
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