Songwriting
Songwriting
This is the final project for the Spring 2020 Songwriting class at University High School. This has been a huge cumulative effort, rudely interrupted, but not deterred, by COVID-19. Enjoy this wonderful album in whatever troubled time you're living!
U SUCK
Sutton Soinski
This song was written about generally not meeting people’s expectations but in the form of a love song. I basically just played my guitar and let the words flow. I am singing and playing the guitar, and Joel added in the amazing piano and percussion!
BENDS IN THE ROAD
Kyra Kushner
It’s a sentimental love song imbued with a strong sense of melancholy about leaving and coming back.
Vocals: Kyra Kushner
Guitar: August Burnett
Everything else: Joel
EXILE
Gavin McDonell
"Exile" is my attempt to tell the story of a solider from Ancient Greece who dreams of returning to his home country after being banished. The lovely Benjamin Tripp is on lead vocals.
Vocals: Ben Tripp
Piano: Gavin McDonell
Bass + Drums + Organ + extra: Joel Chapman
SORRY
Sydney Duncan
I wrote this song about a hopeless romantic who is paralyzed by anxiety. I wanted it to be a sweet song about pining and being naive and clumsy and stupid all at once.
Vocals: Sydney Duncan
Piano + Bass + Drums + extra: Joel Chapman
c0sM1C Awak3n1ng
Ace Savage
"The song pins two interpretations of the word dream against one another. In a literal sense, dream girl means the informal definition of the actual phrase while it also concretely represents a girl who was in a dream. I thought this would be funny and wrote about the character going on a giant love journey only to find out it was a dream. The voice is mine. My friend Kooper helped with the bass line while the guitar was sampled and the drums/melody were only from me."
LULLABY FOR LEAVING
Alexa Fisher
- A lullaby type beat of stuff I wish I could be doing instead of stuck at home, enjoy ヽ(ﾟｰﾟ*ヽ)ヽ(*ﾟｰﾟ*)ﾉ(ﾉ*ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ
- big thanks to Gio Quinn for helping me with guitar
- Alexa with vocals+lyrics and Gio& Alexa on guitar
MELODY OF A SONG
Claudia Bruce
It’s a “will they/won’t they” that was always going to end in a “won’t they.”
Guitar + Voice: Claudia Bruce
Piano + Bass + Drums + extra: Joel Chapman