I’m continuing with my plan to release a new instrumental every month, and tell you the story behind it.
Okay, it’s been a little over a month, but there was a war and my studio is in our safe room. There’s a reason for that – as a sealed room it’s perfect for recording, especially late at night. However, it also means that sometimes the room has to be shared, in this case with my daughter and her 2 children who slept down here.
Once I regained my kingdom I was back to work.
How did I start?
This music is actually what we call repurposed. I had written a melody for a potential customer, but it wasn’t what they were looking for (it happens). Not one to let anything go to waste, I turned it into a piano solo with a different feel. Something that would reflect the turbulant times we’d just been through. I changed the moods during the song using major and minor scales.
I’m happy that most of it turned out major, that means I was in a more optimistic mood.
The title - A New Morning
The original song was about morning, so I decided to stick with that. I opened up a new file called “new morning”. With the mood swings I thought about “Night to Morning”, but I felt that it started and ended on a high note, and “Morning to Night to Morning” is a bit long. So I stuck with the working title – A New Morning.
The video
I confess, I sometimes use stock footage for my videos, just like video makers use stock music. We search for both with keywords. I looked for “sunrise” and “morning”, but nothing seemed to really fit. Then I scrolled through the “people” category and found this film of a women doing yoga on the beach at sunrise (or sunset, it’s tough to tell in 30 seconds). To me it represented the mood that I was looking for – getting up at the beginning of a new day. I added some storm clouds for the darker part of the music, then some more yoga to get up again.