I have to compose something to a brief for my music GCSE and the one I picked was fusing work songs with popular western music. I fused a sea shanty I wrote myself and some EDM. It's slower than typical EDM (105 bpm) to be in line with the vocals and the pulse is kept strong by the drums. The vocals were by myself as I had to make everything myself (even though I'm an alto but hopefully the exam board can't tell) and this has prompted me to ask for a new microphone for Christmas.
Lyrics:
Going down the river lines,
and that’s what I said,
but the map was dated, the river lines;
we got lost instead.
He found some trees and they were green,
but someone miss-read,
for the map was dated, the river lines;
we ran out of bread.
Update 17/03/2024:
I added a low pass filter and a flanger filter and redid the vocals with said microphone from Christmas. I got the other vocals working better but now there's only 2 and 1 has the pitch a little lower. One of the drum loops has a snare drum now. I had to change the wave sound effect as the original file was on my old drive and I couldn't find the same audio thing after freesound did it's big update. The original is here.
Waves at Shetland Islands 1.wav by straget -- https://freesound.org/s/436965/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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