These sessions were used to help us with our creative process and get some ideas flowing. We used a songwriting method that utilises the circle of fifths to write a song. The method involved writing out the circle of fifths, and then picking a note out, such as D or A, and then you use the two notes on either side of the note you picked as well as their relative minors. This gives you 6 different chords that all work together, you can then pick and choose which chords to use and then build your song from there. It is a relatively simple way of writing a song and gives you a good place to start from. Both the songs from these videos were made in under an hour using this technique, so it is quite effective for getting ideas flowing. Each session was dedicated to a different person and their idea, so there were more than these two sessions. However, we either don’t have any evidence of this or it has been lost. There was one dedicated to me and making an indie tune, where I showed them “hospital beach” by Cottonwood Firing Squad as an inspiration and starting point for the song, and we used the method I mentioned earlier to pick some chords and we quickly wrote a simple song. I didn’t use this because the guitar playing that David and Nic played on this song was quite complicated, and without any evidence, I couldn’t recreate it. I also used a different creative process to write these songs so it was easier for me to start from scratch.
This is the structure and chord progression of the indie specific song.