Independent Project Devising

After properly researching I felt more confident to start writing my song. I played around with lots of different chords until I finally found a chord pattern that I felt confident with playing and that I felt was appropriate to my genre of Musical Theatre - A, E, F#, E, D. By playing it constantly and just humming and improvising I slowly developed a catchy chorus that I I felt was appropriate and worked from there. 

I wanna be with you, but you don't wanna be with me.

I wanna be with you, but you don't wanna be with me. 

Then to emphasise what the song was based on, I wanted to open the song with the quote 'to be or not to be that is the question' (Shakespeare 1603) which connects the audience already to the character because everyone can relate to a point of uncertainty in their life, whether that be about a relationship, in Ophelia's case, or just general uncertainty. Then 'play our love scene' references two things that are appropriate to my song. The first being a Musical Theatre reference as it references 'Lets play a love Scene' (TheDancingcat22) from Fame as this is something I want to do throughout the piece. I think part of my audience I'm hoping to attract through this would be Musical Theatre lovers and therefore references other Musicals are almost like an inside joke but I want to do this subtly at the beginning so that this is not the focus but later on I want to allow this to add comedic affect to add to the tragedy of her dying at the end. 

To be or not to be,

That is the question about us.

Will we play our love scene

that is the question, about us.

From composing the bare bones of the chorus and pre verse I was able to develop a structure that I felt would be successful and tell the story well, leaving her time to develop emotionally yet still keeping the piece musically and emotionally engaging. It follows a Musical Theatre pattern yet challenges classic musicals by adding a rap which allows it to very contemporary and modern to help reach a younger audience, whilst the Shakespeare stereotypically will reach an older audience. This way it aims at all ages.

• Introduction
• Pre Verse
• Instrumental
• Verse
• Chorus
• Verse
• Chorus
• Rap
• Chorus
• End