My Dream Ballad

I realized that I love sad ballads for show choir now. It is weird but you can go to one competition and see about twenty ballads where the soprano sings the high note at they end and everyone steps out for the big moment at the end. But you can go to countless competitions and rarely will you see a serious or sad ballad where everybody sits and waits at the end of the song to applaud because they don't want to break the mood. when it is so thick with tension that the audience holds their breathe you know that you have an amazing ballad. As you may have read in my earlier post The Essence of a Ballad, one of the songs that I think would be a good ballad is Twenty one Guns by Green Day. I thought about it and I think it needs another song with it. Then I heard my newest song addiction Russian Roulette by Rihanna.






These songs both are about guns but that isn't what brings them together. It is the fact that they are both about giving up or giving in. If you can imagine, I would change the key of 21 Guns to be minor like Russian Roulette. The words of the choruses would be combined. the beginning could have either a guys solo or a girls solo and the big bridges of the songs could be overlapped with the guys singing 21 Guns and the girls singing Russian Roulette. I can imagine it now: The drum pulsing, the music winding down, and the last note drifting through the air. Ending in silence.