String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.842478
By Avril Lavigne. By Avril Lavigne, Stephan Moccio, and Travis Clark. Arranged by Ben Clapton. Pop. Score and parts. 20 pages. Ben Clapton #4579601. Published by Ben Clapton (A0.842478).
Coming from Avril Lavigne's sixth studio album, Head Above Water was Lavigne's first single since 2015. The song details her struggle with Lyme disease, writing I had accepted death and could feel my body shutting down. I felt like I was drowning. Like I was going under water and I just needed to come up for air. Like I was in a river being pulled in a current. Unable to breathe. Praying to God for Him to help me just keep my head above the water. To help me see through the stormy weather.
Head Above Water is a powerful, spiritual epiphany (Marina Pedrosa, Billboard), with a highly personal note (Robin Murray, Clash). A pop rock ballad that could just as easily fit as a praise and worship song.
This arrangement for String Quartet has the melody mostly in the Violin 1 part, with one section with the melody taken into the Cello - where it goes into the Treble Clef to a C above Middle C.
