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"Big Week" 1 post 2

Quoting Luke's e-mail:
"So...you worked today, what inspired you???"

If talking about specifically today, my inspiration came from this packet of common chords we got from a Cabaret songwriting exercise from last year. I played all of the chord progressions out, and I found that I liked the I IΔ7, I7, I6 snippet (although the way I thought it sounded was a little different when Luke came in and showed me).
I was also inspired by the "just do it" work ethic that we STACies are constantly told we're supposed to have. If you work through something and not worry about if it's good or not, you'll get more things done.
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If talking about what inspired me to write a song, well, writing a song has been on my bucket list for a while now. When writing responses to the 7 questions, when I was writing that making an original animation had been one of my life goals,  I started thinking about what other life goals I wanted to achieve, and I remembered writing a song I liked was one of them.

Over the past few years, I've been extremely interested in "Vocaloid" songs. If anyone remembers my post about UTAU a year-ish back, they know what I'm talking about. For those that don't, "Vocaloids"is a music software program where the voice is provided, but you can manipulate it and make your own songs with the voice, not you, singing it. Before I liked Vocaloids, I thought songs were mainly for pop stars and classical composers, but when I started to see (well, hear) different kinds of people from all over the world making their own songs, songs that became popular and were appealing to the ears, I thought that if they could do it, I could to!

I also gained inspiration from all of the songs the music STACies were doing last year, especially during the intensives. It seemed like a great challenge to do, and again, they weren't pop stars, they were my age. That gave me more motivation and confidence to try my own hand at songwriting, and here I am (although it's really difficult...so many options to work with and so little time....)!