DirectDiatonic

Frankenstein but he’s Snoopy by Moises Olaez

I’m not too sure where to begin with the process I went through for making this song. I haven’t got a great grasp of theory quite yet even in simplest terms. To be quite honest theory has, so far, confused and frustrated me. I knew that I wanted to approach this project with a bit of sentimental emotion with the limited scope of chords that I have.

You can probably tell here that I was having trouble creatively with the sounds I should be producing but after a couple efforts this is what sounded most like what I wanted to convey. Not quite sad, not quite happy just kind of contemplative.

One of my previous attempts had a lot more going on sonically as is perhaps depicted here and though I did enjoy it quite a bit I felt that it wasn’t really fitting the diatonic regiment of the assignment and I remembered my professor starting the quarter off by telling us to work within our limitations and so I challenged myself to keep trying until I felt my piano track was diatonic. I feel now, that I have a slightly better understanding of the concept and this project definitely helped me get more comfortable with things.