Springtime (2023 remake of Springtime at Home) - AlexGB231 (Revival Project)
Channel: AlexGB231
Date: 2023-06-11

Yeah, it was initially named 'Springtime at Home' because I had initially wrote this with my Lockdown mind present, so I just had to redundantly tag on 'at Home'... But it's actually irrelevant having that there, so I'm just gonna stick to calling it 'Springtime' only from now on.

This song is definitely one of the more ambitious ones. However, just like Bouncy Playroom, this is unlikely to be one that you remember. I wrote it in a game called Dreams initially (shoutout to anyone who remembers that game and my coverage of it on this channel) and I released it as an attempt to create a big Lockdown music project or something like that where I would walk people through the creation of the song in a video, going through how I chose the chord progression and wrote the melody and all, but while the song did release, the complementary video unfortunately did not. But that's fine, I did a similar thing through community posts and a making music livestream for Love Never Lasts anyway this year, so that more than makes up for it! I feel like my audience has learned along with me how vocal synths can help generate vocal parts, which is cool! I would definitely like to do either a community post or a video going through some of my thoughts on vocal synths in more depth at some point, to be honest. It'd make for a pretty cool discussion one day. But I suppose if I get the chance to talk about it in one of my music modules next year, I will *absolutely* take that chance, no questions asked!

Either way, now it's getting a remake in Logic Pro X. The premise for this version of the song is that while it *is* structured in a standard verse-chorus form, verse 1, pre-chorus 1 and chorus 1 are meant to represent morning, verse 2, pre-chorus 2 and chorus 2 are meant to represent afternoon, and then the bridge and final chorus are meant to represent evening, so the song as a whole basically feels like a full day in about 6 minutes and 12 seconds. But on top of that, as represented by the cover art, it's meant to tell a fun little story featuring two chickens, one of which is a mother chicken and the other one her child. It starts with the child hatching out of the egg, and then as it transitions into the evening sections, the mother chicken disappears, but then comes back at the very end of the song. Feel free to make your own story about what might've happened between them, I'm leaving it up for interpretation.

The song was initially written in D Major and modulates to B Major for the final chorus, and while this is true from the afternoon section onwards, I actually start the morning section in F Major first. I felt like it was nice to have the song start in that key and then eventually make its way into the familiar key centre that it was initially written in.

Anyway, with all that said, I hope you lot enjoy it!

Listen to the original: https://youtu.be/K_aUJDvJh0c