This is my own arrangement of "River Flows In You" by YIRUMA . Hope you all enjoy it (:

River Flows In You

" Can't Help Falling In Love " by Elvis Presley

Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley

Summary : 

This is a funny dumb song that I wrote using puns and lame jokes that would make you laugh your ass off. The main idea of this song is to bring out not only the pun but also the joy and happiness/laughter of the song, making sure that people who are listening would carry on listening to it because they love the puns and jokes and want more of it. It is also for those who need a happy song to lighten up or lift up their mood on a sad moody day. 


Differentiation factors: (Why should people care?!) 

This song is very much different from any genre of songs you get to hear out there. Most songs are singing/ rap, but this song is different. It's NARRATIVE (plus singing) 
Many normal songs out there are about love/hatred etc and very little comedy song that focuses on the lyrics and the instrumental. I have also fun puns and jokes so funny and often I will use it on my friends and they will always say I’m super lame (u can ask them). Over the years, I have gathered my puns/ lame jokes vocal. Therefore, this idea came into my mind to use what I’m “good” at and put them together into a song for people to enjoy. 

I believe people would want to hear this song because who doesn’t love puns/jokes?! Who doesn’t want to laugh and smile?! Not only that, once they start listening to it, the will most probably carry on listening till the end because they will be so curious to find know what the answer to some riddles and also learn some puns skills from there. Furthermore, if the song is good, they would probably pass it around to their friends so that all of them can laugh together. 


DELIVERY STRATEGIES :

Since the song is a happy and light feeling, I chose to have an acoustic guitar as the main instrument. This is to bring out the rhythmic groovy feeling of the song. I kept the arrangement of the song simply because since this is a pun/joke song, I want the focus to be on the lyrics with the instruments supporting behind. I also added some bells/vibraphone to add to the “kiddy - ness “ and innocent happy vibe. Also, I try to match the instruments according to the lyrics. For example, after the 2nd joke about the skeleton and trombone, I added a “DADA” trombone sound. Another one is the quack sound and also the da dum tss drum sound effect. 

For the chorus, I imagine a group of kids singing that song together. To achieve that, I specifically wanted a choir of people to sing the chorus with me to bring out the choir effect. Also, I wanted this song to be an informal and free song, that's why you might hear people casual talking and laughing at the back about random stuff but yet at the same time joining in the chorus at the same time. Towards the end, I used Leon name to end the song to make it more creative since my targetted audience involves Leon and also the other lecturers. (The reason why I used “Leon” is that it rhymes the best with “sONG” no hard feelings Erica and Roger haha ) 
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- DUE TO THE LIMITED 4000 WORD COUNT IM NOT ABLE TO UPLOAD THE LYRICS-  );

CREDITS : 

LYRICS and CHOIR James, Bryan, Dinz, Caleb, Alicia (RODE NT1-A) (dINZ HOUSE) 
NARRATION : James (RODE NT1-A -) 
Guitar: Bryan (rode nt1-a) 
Everything else : James

FUNNY SONG PROW2

Summary: 

This song is about whats going on inside a girls mind when she fell in love with a guy. The verse talks about the thoughts of the girl when she in lying next to him looking at him and slowly falling asleep. It emphasise the moment of affection and happiness the girl is experiencing.  In the Chorus , it talked about the declaration of love from the girl to the guy. Verse 2 is where the girl experience such joy but at the same time uncertain, insecure and fearful that one day the boy might leave her. And then the bridge took away that idea and declare that the boy is going to be the one for her. 


Differentiation Factor:

This song is different in a sense that I want the lyrics to be simple yet powerful. Although the lyrics repeats the word “I want you to know” , this act of repetition reinforce the desperation of the girl wanting to tell the guy that she really want him to know that he is the one and she love him. The simple lyrics allow people to understand straight away without needing to think much. The chorus of the song provides a lot of spaces for listener to sink into the song and feel the song. 



Delivery strategy : 

instrumental and vocal: 

I want the this song to be a very grand, powerful , declarative song. In the song theres only piano, cello , string bass. The purpose of the strings section is to thicken the song and make it grand and emotional. I also pan the cello a bit to the right, so that it gives the stereo effect. On the vocal I added compression, reverbs and delays. This is to make the vocal less dry and thicker so that it sounds fuller. This way, it will sound more convincing and confident since this song is about singing the love of a girl to a guy and the girl must be confident to do that , and likewise the instrument feels thick and powerful , confident to match the story and lyrics of the song. 

The lyrics: 
The reason for short and simple lyrics is so that it gets straight to the point. The dragging of the lyrics also brings out the words more and allow the words to sink into people’s ear. This song is made of out 4 parts. The verse which talks about the girl’s love and confession to the guy. The chorus is about the affirmation the girl wants the guy to know. However , in every relationship there will be doubt and insecurity, uncertainties , and that falls in verse 3. In the bridge, The insecurity and uncertainties are broken by the lyrics “ heaven knows that you are the only one for me”. This line gives the girl the affirmation and courage to say what she needs to say again - which is “I want you to know …” chorus . 


LYRICS: 

Verse 1



I’m trying to fall asleep , 
in your arms again tonight ,
Everything feels just right 

I’m looking/drowning in ur eyes ,
it’s like watching the night 
but darkness never felt this nice ( this nice)

Chorus 
I want you to know , 
you are the one , 
I want you to know , 
I’m in love with you
so please stay forever 

Verse 2
I’m pacing back and forth
After all this time do I mean anything at all
 

Everyone tells me there’s plenty of fish in the sea
But heaven knows that you’re the only one for me 
(x2)



Credit: 
VOCAL: Christy Yeo (MXL 990 , bedroom) 
Instruments MIDI : James
Lyrics and melody : James and Christy

Want You To Know (prow3)

Summary: 

This piece is a instrumental musical depiction of war. (Inspired from blackshot theme) When there is war, houses, infrastructure, lives are lost and destroyed. This piece musically depicts the journey of what happens during war and the ending of war . This piece is also focused on the death of people during war and the agony in the aftermath of the war. 

Differentiation Factor 

This piece specially focuses on the death of people during war. The word “funeral” came into my mind when I think of death. Unlike other war pieces out there , they rarely focus on the funeral part when someone die during a war. I thought by highlighting the funeral part (using the Chinese traditional way) would make the piece more unique 

Delivery 

During war , there will first be sirens (and you will hear that in the beginning of the piece). After that, I used percussive arpeggiator synthesiser (heavy tom with reverb) for the background to give the war vibe. I also added bomb explosions to  make it sound more like a war. After that comes the strings part where I played a line of sad melody over it to further give the war feels. Next comes the tragic death funeral part. I wanted to use Chinese traditional funeral (inspired by the ones I always hear at my void deck when theres a funeral ) to bring out this death idea. I used many gongs, Chinese drums , Tibetan singing bowl (DONG), Chinese, indian kit to create the funeral feel. I also added samples of women crying( with increase reverb) behind to mourn the death of her loved ones. I then added played some scary sounding pad using lots of minor 2nd and augmented 4th intervals to increase the tensions .

Credits: 
Everything MIDI-James 
*special thanks to Robbie for the strings line idea*

AFTERMATH (prow 4)

SUMMARY/THEME  : Chinese Alien 

This week piece is about Alien invasion. Not just normal alien but CHINESE ALIEN. 

Differentiation Factor: 
Many times when we think of alien we will think that they speak a different language or is their own species by themselves . However, I thought to myself what if Aliens are Chinese and they speak Chinese. I think that would be pretty cool and funny if one day Alien invade the world with Chinese cheom sum and speaking chinese dialect to one another. The differentiation factor here is that to break the mainstream thinking of Alien being a whole total different species but imagining it being Chinese aliens and fusing Chinese music into a alien theme piece have never been done before. 

Delivery: 

Since this piece is about Chinese alien , I thought by speaking Chinese would be suitable to bring out the Chinese feels. However, instead of speaking Chinese, I thought by speaking in dialect would further bring out the Chinese vibe. I also added monster, alien effects with reverb to make it sound scarier and spacier. I then also add in “alien music” at the beginning to reinforce the alien vibe. I also added different instruments and even MIDI military drum beat to bring out the alien invasion feels. Since its about CHINESE ALIEN, I decided to play a melody line over the piece with a Chinese instrument - ERHU
At the end of the piece, I again add in the “ALIEN MUSIC EFFECT” to remind listener of the alien feels. 

Everything by James using MIDI 

Narration at the beginning in Hokkien 
“ HERE I COME , DO NOT RUN AWAY MUHAHAHHA”

James Wong

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