Day 3: Finally have some grounding

It's definitely taken some time, but I feel that we've finally reached an idea for a tune that has not only captured my interest, but is solid enough to build upon. While the other drafts had some good qualities, I feel that it would be too difficult to continue any further with them than we already had. I feel that the what created the most difference was that this time we had access to a MIDI keyboard. Even though we couldn't get it to work with my laptop, it still made it much much easier to think of how to being our tune. Instead of the past drafts, where we tried to start a song by getting a good drum beat, or by finding a catchy riff to repeat, this time we worked on a chord progression to use. With the keyboard, I was able to go through the different types of chords I knew until we found a pattern that caught our interest. It mostly consists of Maj7 chords, moving from C to D to A and so on. To me, the most difficult part of composing a piece is the beginning, in fact I often skip the beginning and try working on the chorus first (which is a strategy that is somewhat difficult to do on FL studio), but I feel that this time we actually have something to work off of. Because of this, our productivity over the next few google days should skyrocket. I have high hopes for what the final draft of our piece will sound like.