Anarchy: A Review|

A Visual Journey (Sheeran and Butah 2014) was the book the inspired\helped me to rearrange a song. This book helped me to push ideas that I was unsure of to make me more confident when it came to making music.

I also looked at two other books that helped me understand music. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Levitin, D. no date) and Listen to This (Ross, A. 2010)

 When rearranging the song Island (2009) ‘Mumford and Sons- ‘Little Lion Man’. I really struggled to change the melody, I found that the melody still sounded the same but the tempo had changed a little bit; therefore, I changed my song. The song I then chose Juusemo (2009) ‘Sex pistols- anarchy in the uk’. 

I found this song had a meaning behind and it was rather memorable, I thought I could really change the melody and make it different with the right help, a few of my friends and I got together and sat and worked out how I wanted the song, I wanted a piano and a guitar still but a completely different melody, When playing around with the chords on both piano and guitar I eventually found that B, F sharp, E, F sharp, B on the guitar and piano sounded the most effective and it also complimented the meaning of the song. I got the guys to play and sing the chords of the song I chose and once it was all pieced together it sounded really good and it was different from the original which is what I wanted.

When playing my song I thought it communicated the initial meaning behind it to the audience really well, I think the dynamics I chose helped me communicate this across. Because I chose a slow, supernatural melody using guitar and piano it helped me to create a professional feel to the song, Because the song was originally a rock song I think what I did to the song really made it sound like it was an original.

To take my piece further I think I could have added harmonies into the chorus just to help pick the song up a little bit, I think using my own voice for the harmonies would have also pushed a personally touch across too. I also think to push my song further I could have added in a violin as the sound of a violin would have enhanced the song and brought it too life, if I were to use a violin to improve my song I would have had a solo where the violin just played, I think this would have made my piece extremely interesting.

Overall I think my song was a strong piece of music but I would have liked to add a lot more personal touches to the song to really push my ideas forward.

Bibliography

‘A Visual Journey’ Sheeran, E. and Butah, P. (2014) Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey. United States: Running Press Book Publishers

Levitin, D. (no date) This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. United Kingdom: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

 Ross, A. (2010) Listen to This. United States: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.