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City of Angels

Posted: November 23rd, 2009 | Author: michael | Filed under: Music, audio, writing workshop | 4 Comments »

Songwriting class, song of the week, called City of Angels. They gave us the chords and the form, we had to write the melody and the lyrics. I shifted all the chords over by one bar so that I could write in minor instead of major.

Enjoy!

City of Angels
city_of_angels.mp3

4 Comments on “City of Angels”

  1. 1 michael said at 11:47 pm on November 23rd, 2009:

    got some solid feedback tonight, gonna dump the first chorus (you came here to find out how far you could go) and use the second version of the chorus in both spots (you came here to find out what it would take). also dumping the 2nd verse and and rewriting it. Same idea, but needs a better execution.

  2. 2 aly hawkins said at 6:56 am on November 24th, 2009:

    Whoever gave the feedback that says dump the first chorus is, I’m sure, wonderful and more song-writery than I. Yet I like the first chorus lyric better than the first. “How far you would go” is darker than “how much it will take”; it implies so much more than “do you have the stones to make it in L.A.?”

    But I agree than v. 2 needs a bit of smithing. All in all, though, a lovely, plaintive ode to the hopeful. I like it a lot.

  3. 3 Daniel Semsen said at 1:36 pm on November 24th, 2009:

    Is your prof Deborah Holland? Cause she’s pretty awesome.

  4. 4 michael said at 1:50 pm on November 24th, 2009:

    Not for this class. I’m taking music history from her, and will be taking a songwriting class in the spring from her.

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