12 Bar Chord Progression

This project was one that I had to scrap and redo a few times. I’m no perfectionist but for some reason I just was not satisfied with any of my initial ideas and attempts. I started with the very simple 12 bar progression we went over in class in C. At first I tried to play something that felt upbeat but I knew I didn’t have anything lyrics wise for a song like that so eventually I gave myself something really slow and started adding instruments.

Naturally uncomfortable with my voice and singing in general I knew I had to find some sort of filtering if I was going to attempt any more singing than before which I wanted to challenge myself to do. I landed on some filters that didn’t change too much but gave me enough of a vocal disguise to warm up to the idea of maybe singing a few words. My first attempt at lyrics didn’t really work for the music I had put together but having recently gone to my uncle’s funeral I pulled from recent memory and landed on the lyrics below.

Satisfied with my lyrics, and the emotional release they sort of gave me I decided that even if my voice didn’t sound great this was the product I would turn in because I think, for me, at least, this was the blues (done my way of course). It also felt quite good to punch in or play everything on this myself. no loops just an attempt at creativity. Have to say I’m proud of this one.