Finished!

So, womanizer is finally finsihed. Last Friday we played it in class (we being myself, Ian Baird, Scott Latham and Rich Klaas). I feel great about working with these guys because they're all great musicians. We only had one or tow rehearsals before we performed on friday, and it came together really quickley.
I got a lot of feedback on friday, both positive and critical. I definitely had a lot to work on with my piece. Luckily for me, Dr. Ross circled all the areas in my piece that needed to be worked on. So I fixed a few things, like the chorus (it sounded too much like the original Womanizer), and instead of having a confusing coda, I copied the chorus onto right after the second verse, then I tweaked it just a little bit to make it sound slightly different. I really liked this suggestion (by Dr. Ross). I tried to make it so that the listener would be slightly thrown off by the little differences. I also went through and corrected some of the areas where the voice wasn't fully balanced with the rest of the instruments.
I'm a little nervous about performing this on Friday, but hopefully everything will be fine, and we'll work out the new changes at the next rehearsal we have.

Suggestions

I played Womanizer for the class two weeks ago, but I didn't recieve much feedback because there wasn't much of it completed to present. Also, the class couldn't see the music, therefore couldn't see the lyrics. However, this week I presented for Theory Prof candidate Scott Godin, and recieved lots of helpful feedback. Firstly, Dr. Godin suggested that I bring back the sudden stops and starts that are heard in the piano accompaniment. He said that this sounds like a record skipping to him. I found this really interesting because I never interpreted this that way. I also asked him about the comedic aspect of it. I've been wondering about how I'm actually going to perform this. He suggested that the fact that I've set these lyrics is comedic enough, and anything else would probably be a little cliche.
Dr. Ross also suggested that I experiment with the Latin-type motif heard throughout the piece. This week I added a section where the time is a little different, but I haven't really done much yet in terms of the notes themselves. The cut and paste tool on sibelius is just so darn tempting sometimes...