chaines3

About chaines3

I am a baby boomer and a unpublished and unheard composer from the chicagoland area whos looking for a lyricist with whom to collaborate in the creation of a musical and/or Pop, Rock, MOR, Christian or Film scores.

I have been writing songs/scores for over 20 years and have a accumulated a wealth of material and I have made a pledge, i.e., A Bucket List entry, to try do something with this material before I get too old. :) I have written all of this music on my own and I am really looking forward to collaborating with someone who is gifted in lyric and play/story writing as I am not.

My major interest because many of the song melodies are very emotional and could tell a story is in musical theater. I have a working title for a new play many of the songs (with titles) and a basic story line but very few lyrics. I also have songs as stated before in the Pop, Rock and MOR genre and many I feel that would adapt to film scoring as well. I love all Andrew Lloyd Webber plays and melodies (like everyone does) and of course Steven Sondheim and the team that wrote "The Fantastiks", who I saw in a special on the Ovation channel that really interested me. On the Pop/Rock front I like all music Abba (A) to Led Zepplin (Z) and everything in between from 60s-2000s and of course love The Beatles, Stones and The Who (love Pete Townsends rock opera album ideas,
i.e., Tommy). Also like country and rythmn and blues or just blues.

I am willing to travel anywhere to decide on a direction and begin working on a project of any kind cause I believe that is the best way to get the ball rolling and then collaboration by Internet/phone is easy after that.

I can only play piano and cant sing so I just lay down what I hear as the vocal melody with some harmony on my piano and record into my pc to create music lead sheets and mp3 files. To get started I can send a couple of songs in mp3 format to give someone a feel if these songs are something they would like to pursue. Also most of the songs are in Intro, Verse, Bridge (sometimes) and Chorus format.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to post this and I look forward to moving forward on some project ASAP!