22 August 2015 Recording thought post...

Finally learnt something out from chord progression on my piano.

But it was a SLOW SLOW SLOW learning progression -.- so much that I wonder if it is possible for a non-talent to make out their own progression. 

After spending 4 hours of fiddling around random keys and notes... I decided to choose a Cmajor chord. 

Not sure if this is the right way, i create a few block chord out from my left hand and play consecutively to find out if it sound nice with different random chord progression... It was easy based on the years of playing piano and common chords that appeared commonly in many music sheet...

But for melody part, it was harder... Without any inspiration or a vague melody played in my mind, I couldn't formed a melody out plainly from touching the piano... And furthermore, Cmajor do not have interesting scales or notes as compared to the rest of the keys, although it is the simplest among all. 

I tried out with other major keys with sharp but it was even harder to think out of a nice melody... It was mentally exhausting, as if I was not meant to compose music out... 

But at the end of the day, I managed to compose a short short music out with a few bars only. 

And my first music created out, I named it as "Sunrise Again"! 

Why Sunrise? Maybe C major do has a beginning kind of sound and the melody itself has an ease and smooth aura sound... (just maybe ><) whyAgain? Cos the melody itself has a obvious repeating patterns... haha

Going back, for the melody part I tried to make a pattern that it is a third apart and to make it simple and straightforward. Because of that, the whole song sound a little common or uninteresting haha... then based on the chords I created out from left hand, I progressed the previous melody to the next... and lastly not forgetting the last part... to make melody sound like a cadence.

Okay, finally, for the last touch, I repeat all the melody and chords and wrote it down on the piece of paper. Then I wrote down the chords down for each note along with roman numbers. 

Surprisingly, the pattern of the roman numbers are aligned with the one that are listed as the acceptable chord progression, with cadence ended on IV-I. It was nice! :)

Hope my next step in learning chord progression and melody will be more interesting and able to take on new key as well. Probably my weakness right now is thinking out a melody. And hope that there is a method to overcome it :( 

And to prove to them that I could be a useful part of keyboardist in the band ! >:)

*will upload my first composed music soon* ^^

"Music isn't about competition"