First Recordings: I'll Never - verse melody (Patreon)

First of all... is this the only song that actually started out a little slower than it is now? 😂

Anywayyyyy I know you've already heard the first ever recording of the chorus, but now you get to hear what I started with when I decided to try to actually write the song! Also the chorus is already different and still not yet where it ended up!

This actually might be one of the more obvious progressions in my songwriting, where I really hadn't figured out how I wanted this part of the song to go until I'd written much more of the surrounding song parts.

I think it's cool listening back and hearing the bones of a song part versus how it ended up. Not just the small changes melodically from one take to the final, but all the way from just an idea of a melody before it even had words.

I do this a lot, and while I'm doing it, I really have no idea what it'll end up sounding like in the end because I can't anticipate the number of syllables when I don't have any words yet! So there's so many adjustments that get made just because I genuinely didn't plan for syllables and don't constrain myself to the number of syllables I initially vocalized 🤷‍♀️