During the long break, I had time to write a full song. This is a song I plan to perform so I used three instruments, guitar, cello and vocals. (I have a friend who plays the Cello who is willing to perform)
Here is the song in its midi form, all the clarinet is representative of the vocals part.
Blue = Verse Red = Chorus Purple = Bridge
I wrote down the vocal part of my song by keying in notes with clarinet because I never had time recording vocals. I spent all the time I had practising for the performance instead.
Here are the lyrics
Oh leaves that fall and stay
Oh the rooftops that turn gray
Tell me where the creatures go
Go when winter falls
Oh who knows
Oh the ravens come and play
Oh the clouds that fade away
What lies after this long road
Walk until we grow old
The doors of stone
Oh leaves that fall and stay
Oh the rooftops that turn gray
Tell me where the creatures go
Go when winter falls
Oh who knows
Leave and then end up where
Do we walk up the stairs
Or just stay right here instead
Well it doesn’t feel complete
And just falling asleep
Sinking down to the sea
Even though it’s supposed to retain the theme of questioning what is after death, my lyrics are mostly nonsense. I figured nonsense is fine because lyrics are often nonsense anyways.
The above is the Cello sheet music sent to my Cello player Curtis Wong, I’m very thankful of him helping me out on this because he had to skip swimming to perform.
Our performance on open mic night was pretty successful because we didn’t mess up and not many people came to watch. I made a few little mistakes but the end result was good and received positive feedback.
Here is the video of the performance.
https://youtu.be/YNU6fnPEU_0
The audio and video quality is not the best so in the future, we might do a three-track recording which put together is something very good for me to have.