Originally Posted by TuneMonger
I really like this! The vox were very good. The arrangement was good. Love that guitar solo! In verse 3, that word design just doesn't flow for me. If possible, I would encourage you to redo that verse with an ear toward improving the prosody. Other than that, a fine effort!
Thanks Rob! I have to admit my ignorance here - I didn’t know what prosody was when I read your post, but have now looked it up. I’ve become aware recently of some of my songs having the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAble. From what I understand, prosody is broader than that. I think I’m going to have to do some deeper research on this due to my historic approaches - I am a music first writer, so I often have chords and melody all done, then have to go looking for lyrics, although I usually do vary the lyrics and melody to improve the singability of the song. Maybe I need to do a few more passes to check that my lyrics have a natural phrasing to them, and maybe get rid of problematic words like ‘implementation’. Considering things like rise and fall will be a bit more problematic for me.

Anyway - life-long learning!

Andrew