I started this song with the goal of creating an upper-class, jokey scene/character.
I had spent a lot of time researching this genre of music, which I had never done before, but when I started to write the song with my own phrases, I couldn't get it to come together, and I was about to give up, wondering if I had wasted my time.
I was in the mood to give up, thinking, "What would happen if I put in an idea I had for another song a long time ago, instead of a phrase I thought of here and now..." I had a dim hope.
But if I had spent so much time trying and failed, it was unlikely that it would work out that way..." Half-convinced, Mood began to work on the song.
I was half-convinced, and tried to match the motifs I had been working on.
When I put one foot on the motif of the current session and the other foot on the motif I had been saving, something came into view at the new center of gravity/center.
The motifs were dug up like a vine, and I felt a hint of something I had not anticipated,
"Oh, then why don't we do it this way...?" and began to adjust the section.
The technique was changed, the chords were changed, the counter-melody was changed, and this created a new rhythm and its contrasting reactions. One of the counter-melodies said, "Wow, this is cool!" and one of the counter-melodies was a new expression technique I had never seen before, and the best synth phrase of the year was born. You may be thinking, "What does a partial evaluation of the best phrase mean musically? You may think so, but the decisive phrase may be the driving force or the shadowy protagonist. Against the leading motif, a contrasting motif emerged with a strong presence. The cells of the song began to transform all at once and could not be stopped. In other words, it began to become a big piece. When motifs this strong are gathered together, there is no choice but to set up a flow to the scene where they come alive and put it all together.
I started to write a song that would appear and end in a flash, but this song seems to want to be a big song. The bigger the song, the more work there is to do, and the longer the road to completion becomes. I think I can see myself closing with a gut-punch after this song has grown, but due to today's schedule, I have to cut it off now and work on another song.
Let's keep working hard.