To start with, I added some harmonies instead of melodies to slowly build up the emotions instead of just jumping straight into the melody. After I harmonies with piano and strings with the beat, I harmonies further with a little bit of synth.
I then started to build up the song a little more by creating a little more drum beats to ease the song into a build up. This was the starting of the verses which will loop until it reaches the chorus.
For the chorus, I did arpeggios on the piano which followed the chords that had already been following the song, F, A, E and G. I repeated this twice because I held each chord for 2 bars each.
This is where I held down each chord for 2 bars, except on the last one I added in the starting of the beat again so I could loop back to the verse again.
For verse 2, I kind of changed the rhythm a little so it kind of doesn’t go straight from one beat into the next one, it’s like it breaks for a mini second and then plays it but it just sounds different to verse 1.
Verse 2 is a few seconds shorter that verse 1 because I had a huge break before the beat swapped over to transition into the bridge. I figured that I wanted my structure to be intro, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, verse/outro.
For my bridge, I didn’t switch it up a whole lot, I just played the root note of the chord in my left hand and then the second note of the chord in my right but I play the right hand note twice. I looped this over twice before going into the held out chords, just like at the end of my chorus.
After my bridge, I went back into a verse instead of into a chorus because the bridge is already quite up beat so for another up beat section, I don’t feel like it would be as effective.
For my outro, I used the held out chords again but I alternated between them being with the beat, then solely beat and then solely the chords. The solo chords held out gives it a nice soft end.
For verse 1, I just added some bass to amplify it and emphasise it a little better, it also creates quite a big difference now in all the different verse yet they still sound close enough. It creates different layers so there’s always a new sound for you to listen to.
I went back and took out the drums to start with so you get more of a calm beginning and it gives more of an opportunity for the drums to build it up.
Then, I took out some of the beats so it gave variation and didn’t continue to feel like it just repeated the whole way around, it kind of gave it a little more space.
Lastly, I soloed the piano’s chords and riff so it ended more smoothly instead of having an abrupt ending.
This is how the final piece looked.
This is how the final piece sounds!