Are you wondering how we write our songs?

It's actually quite an interesting process. I imagine most musicians don't write quite like we do. For instance, I think many people think of what they want the song to be about and then write it acccordingly, when we do it in somewhat of a reversed order. Here's kinda how it goes:

• Mikaela or Alison will come up with a little chord progession that we think sounds cool. We tend to have a lot of E minor chords in said progressions. We loves the E minor. 

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• Then we'll usually kind of make up some melodies by singing "aah's" along with our chord progression. 

• After we come up with a basic melody, if it was a ukulele song, Mikaela will bust out a wicked awesome harp part to go with it. If it was a harp song originally, Alison will struggle to learn the chords and strum or pluck along.

• After that, we figure out a bridge and a chorus and arrange it how we like. 

• We dread writing lyrics. We have a common fear of being cheesy when we write our lyrics. What usually happens is one of us will have a very small revelation and come up with one line that isn't cheesy. Then our challenge is to write the rest of the song keeping the theme and trying to rhyme. You'll notice that in many of our songs, we neglect this stage and just throw in some "la's", "ooh's", or "na's".

• Next comes my FAVORITE part! (Alison's favorite part) I get to come up with the harmonies! I love harmonies! They're sort of my thing. It seemed that in the beginning, I did the high harmonies and Mikaela did the lower melody like in our song "Cake Song". Now it seems that Mikaela has been doing the higher melody and I have been doing the lower harmony. Or sometimes I sing the melody and Mikaela sings the harmony like in "Sweatervest Man". Great fun!

I just came up with a little thing-- "What makes a Girls song?" "The two H's--Harp and Harmony"!

Until next time!
We love you,
The Girls