The Final Performance

For my final performance, to challenge myself I wrote my own Country song, a different genre to what I’m comfortable in writing as I usually write Indie style songs. Before I began I researched a few articles on line to guide me, I came across an article which appealed to me, and within the article is a list of themes that most country songs are based on.

1-Trucks

2-Drinking

3-Rain

4-A failed relationship

5-Love (Babygandalf)

I used this list and chose the words drinking and love as the themes for my song. I then took out my note pad and wrote down a list of words I connected with country music and drinking, the word that stood out to me the most was Saloon, using the word Saloon I came up with the title to my song “The Single Man Saloon”. Once I had a title to the song I went on to write the whole song until it was complete.

I uploaded a recording using Audacity of myself singing the  finished song, which I played for the final performance; I used the instrument the Maraca in the background just to give the song a bit of a musical background, which worked well, however if I was to write a country song again I would experiment more widely with different instruments.

Overall I felt the final performance went well and I was happy with the lyrics to the song I wrote, but I could improve on my vocals, presently I am partaking in singing lessons with Val Reid to improve .