Weather The Storm - New Song WIP

I felt a big piano vibe yesterday so I sat down and started playing around and my fingers and ears took me some place new. The result is this work in progress song, this is the file from Staff Pad not my playing as I have to learn it first but I think it's a good start. So far there's an intro, verse, chorus and then repeat verse chorus and I need to work on the bridge/solo. I'm thinking the bridge will be more rhythmic because there's already a lot of pretty playing going on. I'm toying with the idea of moving the intro up an octave too.

In my quest to try and get my head around writing and song structure I took a different approach. I allowed myself to noodle out the first four chords, that then became the intro. I then took an idea that I liked and made that the first melody and played that over the top of each chord but slightly varied to fit the chord. After the second four bars I changed up the last couple of bars and after the third set I changed up the second bar too to lead into the chorus which I again worked out a melody for and repeated it over the changes.

A few things I like, I've been a bit more adventurous with the chords - yes Bm is in there but only because it creates that wonderful relationship with Bb Major in the chorus when one leads into the other. I like the repetition it does feel like there is more room to add other instruments and I can certainly feel bits that could be picked out and padded out with another instrument.

I need to learn to play it because although I can play most of it now I wrote in staffpad so it's not in my muscle memory yet. As I'm learning it's already changing up a bit and I think the intro might go an octave up but as it stands I Hope you enjoy this one. I haven't forgotten the underdogs post just been busy with this new song - told you I might get distracted!!

Still feeling rough but powering through it hence why my productivity has gone nuts again!