A Poem Turned Into A Song

Interesting. New. Collaboration.

I love music, I'd love to play it all my life (professionally) and I'm trying to make that happen. I love teaching it too. But unless some big time producer is reading this and is looking for a short girl from Chicago (that has no band, might I add)...I can play shows and sing my heart out but I can't go on doing it for the rest of my life.

I graduated 2 years ago from Northside College Prep, took 2 years off (much to my teachers' and sponsors' disappointment) to teach guitar, ukulele, vocals, songwriting, drums, and sadly not piano. In less then 15 days I'm shipping off to Havard for creative writing and music. No one thinks either of those are majors, but it is what I want to do.

So for this song, I wrote a poem, and put it to song. 

It's new, different, and I hope you guys like it. 

He's An Artist...

So I was challenged to write a song with a list of words, and it wasn't supposed to make any sense...

...too bad it did.

So for your enjoyment ladies and gentlemen...

British Accents..

...are quite fun.

Well, they are. And so is saying 'gnarly' and 'commune on a deeper level, dude' but no one will let me talk like that. So I find excuses to talk oddly. 

Let's restate that.

Today in one of my songwriting classes they asked me how to put a melody to lyrics, and I told them the old organized trick. But then I was asked by one curious man (that reminds me a lot of Elvis as far as his singing goes) how I put melodies to my lyrics. Put on the spot, I had to be honest....

I say my lyrics to myself with an accent (usually British or Australian, mate). 

It seems silly, but it helps me find the highs and lows of my melody and the rhythm of my speech. It also makes me less critical of myself because it's not my voice. Some people understood, others didn't. But they all thought it was 'gnarly'. So I've decided to post a song of mine for them using only my (horrible) British accent to demonstrate how it gives life and rhythm to the song.

Even if you aren't in my class, please enjoy!