We had a few ideas to play around with at the beginning of the process of planning for the variety performance. We had decided that we wanted to do a music piece and we played around with the idea of adding comedy and a potential story to our song. At this point we had gone over some pieces such as Waterfall by The Stone Roses and some acoustic renditions of popular contemporary music but we then thought about a song that consisted of comedy whilst also being contemporary.
This then lead us on the idea of a melody of our favourite songs, both old and new, written to a simple chord structure.
We had previously seen a performance on YouTube called 'The Four Chord Song' written by a band called 'Axis of Awesome' where they wrote a 4 chord melody and then included singe lines of lots of songs that fit with the structure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
Once we had decided that we wanted to do something similar to this we began rehearsing this piece but as we went on we decided to add our own spin on it and replace songs with ones that we had found to fit with the chord pattern. Once we had finalised our piece we performed it to the rest of the class in which we decided on the type of staging we wanted for it as well. We went with a simplistic idea of two stools set up at the front of the stage where we would sit and perform.
Our first performance of it we had a story line where my character was upset about his dog dying and so he had created a melody of his dogs favourite songs but after watching the performance back we realised that it was quite long and not as funny as it could be if we were just playing ourselves.
We then went back to the drawing board of hope we could present the piece and in what context, so we ditched the dead dog and went with the idea that we were two very arrogant "musicians" who wanted to teach the world about music and therefore created a song explaining how simplistic and similar contemporary music is.
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