I had a lot of trouble getting the right melody in the beginning of my project. I went through about 3 different ideas before I finally found the right one and I still wasn’t sure it was the one I wanted. During my cohort meeting, my leader mentioned something about connecting my project to the virus in some way and I really didn’t want to because I wanted to get away from it as much as I could. I was sitting at my piano which is pushed up against my window and this is after the announcement from the mayor. I was numb and I was frustrated. Nothing was working out, not my project, not what was supposed to be the best part of high school. It was raining and the darkness outside wasn’t a booming kind of darkness, it was the quiet time. So I played to it, to the darkness, to the rain and it worked. I found my theme, I found my melody, I found the perfect structure for my song and it all happened at once. I figured out how to specify each emotion without having the lyrics explicitly say so. I used tempo, certain sound effects like rain, and tone. I looked out and thought that this was never going to end because that’s what it felt like but the truth is, this is only temporary and that’s what I wrote about. I set up the three emotions, each section based on tempo. Starting slow and turning faster and louder. The end is a mashup of all emotions together symbolizing that it’s possible to feel multiple feelings at once which falls under the emotion of being overwhelmed.