Well… to be honest not at all at this point in time. When I started it has been a long time since I’ve done something creative and it was like a flood gate opened in my mind.
A short summary on the background and motivation behind it. I’ve already written a bit about it in the thread where we post our original creations but to sum it up I have a long running DnD group and one of the party members started singing “I’m fixing my shield clang clang” and in the lore of our gaming world it evolved into a hit song. My bard composed a full song out of it according to lore and after starting B2B I finally felt like I had the tools at hand to do so in real life. I’ve written out lyrics, a chord progression and a drum track. Started recording vocals and… became frustrated after realising I would either have to let someone else do the vocals or well… practice singing. So that’s where I’m at now. I’ve gotten better at singing but haven’t returned to my composition yet.
The main influence while composing were “Joint Venture”/“Götz Widmann” (one of them died, the other one continued touring/publishing) because I think the genre of “Singer songwriter with guitar” fits best for my bard with a lute.
Then there’s Pink Floyd - Money from where I took the basic Idea of using not drums as drum track. Keeping in line with the theme I chose smithy sounds as drum beats. That turned out to be challenging since a lot of sounds are pretty high frequency so they are high in the spectrum and cut pretty hard in the mix. Maybe I’ll rework that part.
Also Gio pointed out that it would be good if one could recreate the drum beat in a tavern setting. So I worked out the drum beat in a way I can recreate it on a table with a clay mug.
All in all I tried to write more of a “hit song” one can sing/shout in a tavern over an ale than I tried to use medieval sounding scales/modes or something like that.
In the future I may be analyzing more of the medieval sounding music of bands I like. There are a lot of German (I am German) medieval rock bands (In Extremo, Schandmaul) or even bands who just try to sound medieval without the rock in it (Corvus Corax). Carmina Burana is always interesting regarding medieval stuff. It’s one tidbid of music history I know of because of the roleplaying background.
Many mistake the Camina Burana for Carl Orffs creation but the Camina Burana is actually a song compilation from an old century (dates are all over the place. Some seem to be as old as the 11th century) and Carl Orff was simply the first one to interpret it in modern times. He also didn’t interpret all of it just some selected songs.
Sorry. I try to keep it short but then it always felt like an incomplete answer. I hope I don’t bore you to death. 