Saturday, August 13, 2016

Collaborating with Rococode on composing a song

Who are Rococode:
My uncle and auntie are a band called Rococode.  I emailed them before I left and asked them to help teach me how to write a song and they agreed to collaborate with me when we were in Canada. They have just finished a USA and Canada tour down the West Coast and were having a break before they played at a festival called HaidaGuai.
To write a song, Auntie Laura got me to do a lot of singing and piano playing - I made up the lyrics with her about our family trip.  We all came up with ideas that we did this summer. For the rap, we thought of words and kept working on rhyming until we had a rap that made sense.

We worked together every day all afternoon for 4 days.

Uncle Andrew did a lot of the editing while Laura did the recording.  I sang and played the piano chords that I made up. I know the parts of a song now (lyrics, piano, etiquette, hook, bridge, chorus, verse) and can now start to start editing on garage band. This is a link to the rough cut version: The Hunt .

My song is about my family in Canada and our vacation.  This is a photo of me and my sisters with Rococode in the couch wearing one of their tour t-shirts.

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