For a long time now I have wanted to revise the songs I recorded in my younger years. The reason is that I don’t feel like the music was well thought out. I explain more about this in the video. Creating melodies was never a problem for me. The issue was the music, finding the right sounds to support my melodies.

I share my story as a young musician in my early teens trying to navigate the challenges of music recording. The song used in this video for revision is about the beauty of the world, what I thought to write about back then I guess. When revising music I start with melody and harmony (chords). To find chords that sound good together over a melody, I take a standard chord progression that works and then modify it to my liking. This method saves me much time and energy.

Theme and variation is a technique I use to help structure the music. Melodic variation, that is, variations of a melody is the focus in this song. I take an instrumental melody and create other tunes with it to fill in the music. I also create a common-tone modulation to connect the bridge and outro, which are in different keys (Bb and Ab major). The bridge ends on F the five chord in Bb and moves to Db the four chord in Ab. Both chords share note F, which serves as the pivot note "held" when transitioning. They also share common chords (Cm and Eb) which I could have used instead but chose not to because I forgot.

When I analyze the recording itself I find that there are parts where I am singing off key (these parts should have been re-recorded) and words that are not clearly pronounced. For example, the ending of some words cut off. The "st" at the end of the word "highest" in the chorus and the "s" at the end of the word "things" in the outro are missing. Also, the instrumentation seems to work better with the rhythm of the lyrics/melody in the outro than in the other sections.

The bottom right corner in the video provides more detail like chord symbols and other information.

https://youtu.be/PWYIU8kmBSg