This song wasn’t intended to be an unconventional string quartet but quarantine had me in a creative space. Since this was only my second time writing out a string arrangement, I took inspiration from one of my favourite artists, Dodie Clark to see how the string worked for her songs. Dodie’s song “When” is a personal favourite of mine and includes a cello and violin alongside piano and vocals. I struggled to take notes about the arrangement as I struggled to find a transcript of the actual score. So I directly contacted the arranger, Elana Abad, via her music page https://www.facebook.com/elenaabadmusic/ and she gave me a pdf of the score as well as notes of what they changed when recording it! (Safe to say, I was a little star struck). The arrangement is beautiful and I annotated the score for the cello and violin as I was curious to see how they interacted with each other and with the vocalist (e.g. when they supported the piano and when they actively harmonised with the vocals). I failed to write out an accurate guitar and vocal part because this score was mostly for the musicians I managed to wrangle into helping me record the song. They were all incredibly generous with their time and are all excited about potentially performing it live when students start to study on campus again. I sure as hell would love to see it come together in a live setting, I reckon it would be beautiful. Bandcamp link: https://callmecharlie.bandcamp.com/track/close-for-comfort-demo Full Score and Parts PDF
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Artist SummaryI'm a WA Fremantle based singer-songwriter / composer. Here, you can have a gawk at my studies, compositions and performances. Archives
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