Part A: Writing a song

In my group we decided to try to write a song.

I was the lead singer accompanied by piano and bass guitar.

We found a chord progression on the piano first which we all liked, then added a base line.

I sang some melody ideas over the top.

Here is a video of what we came up with:

 

We decided that this section of the song should be the chorus and we practised the melody in a loop.

Now we had to think of some lyrics, we decided that the song should be happy and uplifting and we bounced ideas around and eventually decided to go with the lyrics

‘Don’t you know loves the key’

Here is a video of us practising with those lyrics: