Process? How songs develop.

And by being honest you have to be humble in presentation. I have T.Rex and The Beatles Anthology albums where home recordings are at their most raw and basic. Then both produce the finished articles we are familiar with. The vinyl masterpieces we all know. It’s a fascinating process to listen to John Lennon singing ‘Now and Then’ at the piano at home decades ago and then Paul, George and Ringo bringing us the song’s progression this year. Yes….I cried on listening to it.

On blogs before I have uploaded very raw songs I hope to develop. I suppose it could be considered a weird way of how you present yourself to others….warts and all. Usually you keep it private and then offer a finished music/song written project. Hopefully accepted because it sounds ‘Proper’. I actually am not bothered how I am perceived. As said before in my blogs, ‘warts and all’ gives real content of my song journeys.

In this case, the story of this particular song is still yet to be completed. I state at the end of this rough as rough rendition of an idea..’Remember all the lyrics from the old songs’. I keep forgetting to tap into post Jack Daniel’s imbibed and then recorded ‘Remember those ideas’ from multiple song stutterings. Jack Daniel’s after effects leads you to believe that sometimes you have come out with a decent tune. Down the line? You go ‘Ooopsy’ and press delete. Or, weeks on months later you hear another sung ramble and go ‘YooHooWhoopsy, that’s kinda nice’. I forgot about that one.

So below is possibly post Jack Daniel’s. Although my lack of slurred vocals says it was born from a caffeine related event. This is a warble capture with a response of ‘Could work’ written all over it.

Then, you want to experiment with your new ‘could work’ song on the toy that is GarageBand and your Apple Mac M2 pro shiny home recording system. Again, below is another stage of ‘a hopeful’ and not an intended finished article. Because you are once again in another infant stage to realising a finished article. Why? This GarageBand recording below is okay for continuing with the previous idea above. But! The melody of ‘Always so blue’ has to be slotted into this second song development below at some point in the future.

Chords? If you are a musician and want to play along to it. C, Am, Em, then on to F, C, G and G7. You could improve my version here with your musical skills. Give a shiny uplifting resonance that adds creativity to my own naive playing on it…..

Trouble is with this ‘warts and all’ and get stuff down method ? It’s that it becomes really random. As said, dozens of tunes and chord progression possibilities are too familiar with other post Jack Daniel’s to take seriously. My lack of musical prowess leads to similarity with other stuff I have recorded before. What I believe is a new idea………isn’t.

Disclaimer: The Jack Daniel’s mention is purely an artistic inclusion to add spice to this blog. Actually! Red wine…….always red wine.