Your Songwriting Task
Theme: Immunity
Guideline: Position your song in the forest
Extra Guideline: Restrict your verse melody to 2 notes/pitches. You can repeat those 2 notes as much as you like.
Time Limit: 1 hour
Listening Guide: Having a songwriting task doesn’t restrict our members in what they write, it’s simply a starting point. Can you hear how these songs relate to the theme of “immunity”, even in a non-specific way?
Immune
Songwriter – Roz Pappalardo
“I’d just moved out of my home. Left everything. I was living under a friend’s house, sharing my bed with my dog, drinking too much red wine and watching endless episodes of “The Walking Dead”, imagining I was warrior woman, Michonne, from said HBO show, wielding a massive samurai sword, protecting my people from impending doom and apocalypse. Where would I go? Where would I hide? Who would I turn to? Who would I protect and call my own? Who would call me their own? Where would I hide?! How much longer do we have?”
Sunset Melancholy
Songwriter – Tess Heath (Artist Name: Tessa Fleur)
This track was Tessa Fleur’s debut single. After writing 42 songs in the club, she says Sunset Melancholy was her most “monumental and honest track to date”. Tessa Fleur received the inaugural Tara Simmons Music QUT scholarship for female artists.
Searching (for more)
Songwriter – Hannah Acfield
“I wrote some lyrics this morning about walking in the forest l but couldn’t find the right chords or melody for it. It was very sweet. Too sweet. So I plugged my electric guitar (NEW guitar) in and tried to find a ‘walking’ rhythm on guitar. I found this blues guitar sound and the backing vocals came to me first which I recorded, and then worked the main melody around them. This no longer relates to immunity or the forest which I think breaks all this weeks rules but I LOVE it (maybe cause I get to be a diva)! The lyrics are inspired by when I walked the Camino across Spain.”
