Experimenting with Music Creation Excerpt 1 Commentary

My stimulus piece is Tobu's Candyland. Tobu's songs are very distinctive. main melodies are usually not too melodically complex, hence my decision to use a simple 5 bar loop. He usually uses major keys to write his music, and his songs are always very bubbly, catchy, and uptempo. For Candyland, he composes in E major, and uses a tempo of 110. I have two main takeaways from the stimulus. The first aspect of Candyland I decided to incorporate into my composition is to compose an uptempo composition with a strong beat. I decided to crank up the tempo to 138 for my composition, and plan to use a strong drum beat. The second takeaway is the addictive melody component:  I thought I could get the same "addictive" melodies by composing in Eb minor, since I already had the melodic idea before starting my composition. My melody revolves along a simple 5-bar call and response structure, with a homophonic texture, similar to the stimulus piece. 

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