“She spends her time” is about how the mother reacts and copes with her only sons death, which is being told on behalf of the son himself. The stories progression throughout the song is, the last time they spoke and saw each other was at the funeral, which then leads onto how all her plans changed and how her day to day life style turns darker and darker.!
I got the idea from not having a brother, and how much i wanted one. So i wrote a summary of how the song would go, about two brother which the eldest brother dies without saying goodbye to his brother. After spending time on the song, i thought that the song would have more emotion and depth if there was only one son, and also writing about how the mother would feel when losing her only son. This connected really well with me personally because my mother always says that “without me, there would be no point in living”.!
The structure of the piece is: intro, verse 1, verse 2, chorus, verse 3, chorus, middle 8, chorus and a half, outro. I chose this structure due to the way it felt whilst i was playing it and where about the song should change.!
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The main Lyrical technique used in this song is harmonies to give the song a more uplifting and emotional feeling to it, i also used repetition and imagery. The musical features that i felt was the most important was the tempo and rhythm, because the song is sad and has a story to tell, i though giving the song a laid back feel and slowing down the tempo gave that extra sensation of feeling music.

SHE SPENDS HER TIME

“Give it up” is about a girl who befriends the singer just to get to know his/her social group of friends I wrote it in the 1st person to give it more impact. It is about the feeling of deceit, annoyance and disillusion. The song explains how these feelings affects the singer and tells the listener the outcome when the singer gets used. !
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This idea was taken from my own experiences, being bought up in a multicultural school in Spain it was a common occurrence. We all had to learn to make connections quickly due to the frequency of people coming and going to their countries of origin. Having experienced these feeling regularly I felt it would be something that a lot of people could relate too and therefore could be an appropriate subject for commercial use.!
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The musical idea came from me wanting to do a song heavy and rockier unlike the other song, i wanted to show that i can create other genres in music not just acoustic. I wanted to created a chord progression that had power behind it, so that i could come up with lyrics easier. The clearer the song is the better i find lyrics within my head. I used harmonies to push the song and make it stronger and i also though by adding the breakdown at the end would give a greater sensation of movement and power.!
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The structure of the song throughout is: introduction, verse 1, ramp 1, chorus, verse 2, ramp 2, chorus, outro. I made this song have this type of structure because, listening to other song of this genre made more sense in creating a more powerful and more meaningfully song and mainly those types of structured song that i had listened to had a higher selling rate.!
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The musical techniques used were:-!
Imagery - I was trying to show in our minds using the repetition of the words and rhythm, the feelings and emotions that I felt. !
Musical features - the rhythm, melody and harmony played a huge part within the song. I wanted to make the listener feel up lifted and make the song and sounds feel thicker. The rhythm part I believe fitted the song as it set the feel and tempo I was tried to create.!
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I put the harmonies throughout the entire song. I tried to make them catchy with a view to keeping the song in the minds of the listener. I thought that this would make the song more commercial. ! !
Throughout the process of creating the song I edited and changed the levels of frequency responses of the audio signal to make them sound better, however the final mix was completed in a recording studio. I wanted my work to be more professional and polished than a recording done at home. During this process I was worked with the engineer/musician. I changed the mix into an mp3 audio, then mixed the mp3 audio again to see if it would make an even greater sound, which I believe it did.!

GIVE IT UP

The song is about about the choice between blissful ignorance or the pain of knowledge. On one hand you wish to be comfortable and happy, on the other, the struggle with ones conscience knowing so much is wrong in the world.

George Vowles