Hello Chris – and fellow blog persons.
This is the beginning of a collaboration, Chris Hall’s poem: Together We Are Strong published on lunasonline.wordpress.com on April 7th 2020.
I was reading the poem when it occurred to me that it told a story, from verse to verse, has drama and strong expressive images and that would work as a song. So I got in touch and put forward my idea and she seemed OK with it.
I’ll try to publish the progress on my blog showing the changes and ideas as they happen. At first, I tried a couple of rhythms led ideas that didn’t seem to work, so then I just sat down with my guitar and tried to play a melody over minor chords. Then fearing I might lose what I had so far I took a break. Now that I come back to it I’m not sure and yet it could be ok or not. 🙂 (My smiley faces never work or some reason but I tried, no I’m wrong there it is).
This is so exciting… and I’m very okay with it 🙂
The melody reminds me of a choral piece: sisters singing in a chapel. I like it very much. Previously I’d imagined something more lively… but now I’m not so sure. Among the comments I received, one said the poem had a chanting feel and another that it felt like a prayer. So, I think you are definitely on the right track.
Shall I tweet it out for comment yet?
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Thank goodness you like it. Yes if that means feedback it’s ok. I still think of setting it to Roxy music though, I just need to borrow their bass, drum and guitarist.
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The more I’ve listened to it the more I like it, Mike 🙂 It has a very uplifting and tranquil feel. It would be really interesting to chart how you develop the piece, although getting the boys round might be tricky at the moment.
I know a bit about the writing process, but not how someone goes about composing a piece of music. I’d love to see how that works. Meanwhile, I’ll see if any feedback is forthcoming over the weekend.
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thank you, it occurred to me that I don’t know much about the background to the poem, I assume that it was made up though.
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