This is a piece that I was writing that had a melancholy feel to it as I was writing it. It was produced as a hip hop beat with intention of putting vocals on it to have a pop feel, leaning to a Bruno Mars sound, but still with a urban appeal. It has a natural sound using clean guitar, bass and a piano for an accomponiment. The guitar leads with the melody. The song starts with an intro and goes in to the verse. In between verses and choruses are pre-chorus. It originally wanted to use it as a bridge, and may still do so changing the structure.

Questions. 

Do you think I should use the pre-chorus as a bridge and just go from verse to chorus? 

Does the song sound like it’s a bit repeatative? Do you think the pre-chorus breaks up the continuity or does it help the harmonic progression?


Boris Lunin - Long Way Home

In the Final Version, I've completely revamped the entire score. I originally played the melody and accompaniment in Pro Tools and then attempted to export the midi file and import it in to Sibelius. After seeing that it made my job a lot more difficult, i went back in to Sibelius and edited the score by hand which I'm finding a lot easier in the long run. It gave me complete control over the score which in turn makes me learn how to staff scores more efficiently. I'm starting to see that composing music in Sibelius has a lot of advantages. I also added a string accompaniment section at the bottom to spice the accompaniment up a bit. I've given them staccato quality so to accent the accompaniment. I've wrote a outro and edited some of the phrases to have changes and to contrast between the verses, prechoruses and choruses.  