Building the frame for my cover of Torn by Natalie Imbruglia

First thing to do -

First thing — get the whole song down, top to bottom. Follow the original's skeleton for now. I came into this with a style in mind, so now I'm going to track the whole song in sections using just midi - with MIDI even standing in for the vocal for now.

Next — play the original and write the parts down as I hear them. Total free form stream notes in realtime as I listen. I'll then use this as an informal checklist to build the first draft frame of the song in Ableton.

Listening notes on composition by section

Intro section -

Verse 1

Prechorus

Chorus

Verse 2

Prechorus 2 -

Chorus 2

Bridge

Chorus 3

ahhhh yeah here it comes - that powerful end section

Ta ta for now

Tomorrow I'll start scaffolding the rest of the song.