Songwriting is a process. The perfect song does not just instantly appear on paper or in a recording without working through flaws. Just as the lyrics of a 12-bar blues song typically lay out all the negative statements before stating something that is hopeful in the fourth line, each week I will share the struggles I may have faced when preparing each week’s New Tune Tuesday. I will also share some of the lessons I have learned both in the songwriting and recording process. From time to time, I will put the struggles and lesson learned in a 4 line stanza that could be used with the 12-blues musical format.
Some of you may be aware that I did not post a a Singin' The Blues for Change My Channel last week. Well after writing the post twice (not online), and strange mind games computers were playing on me, I felt defeated. With two different computers inhibiting my ability to successfully save my file and retrieve it, I figured it wasn't meant to be posted. I am determined to conquer technology this week, and not succumb to its wrath.
As I mentioned on Tuesday, Press Pause came out of a piano improvisation. While playing it on the piano, I gravitated to a key that was not a friendly key to play on the guitar and that was two high for my alto voice to sing.When I began to transpose the song to play on guitar and sing more comfortably, I could not get the original key out of my head. I had to walk away from the song for a few days to reset what my hears where hearing.This little hiatus worked by resetting my auditory memory of what the song should sound like.
One other change that was made very late in the game was to the melody. There was one specific bar that was very difficult for me to sing well. Thanks to my lovely husband, he helped me rewrite the short phrase. It sounded a lot better after his help! :)
I am hoping all technology woes are behind me the rest of the week! I look forward to bringing you next week's new song!
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