Currently, I am down in my birth town visiting family and shortly going on to another town to continue helping my daughter to move. I’ll spend until later today doing this. Angie and myself spent 3 days last week moving our daughter and the grandchildren to their new house. The older house still isn’t empty and also requires a massive tidy up before finally handing back the old house keys. Hence this visit. Anyways…..back to the music stuff.

When you write a song it can lead to various adaptations. After going ‘all guns blazing’ electrically at a particular song recently, I switched it to an acoustic vibe. How it developed…..After whisper singing an acoustic warbling, (audio below) I upped the idea into an electric guitar format. But then going on to write full lyrics, the lyric word choices changed the whole mood. They were about my life. I got quite emotional with the lyric result and thought they were more appropriate for a gentler approach. So I went back and did an acoustic version, made up a completely new tune on the spot (actually whilst recording) and found it preferable for the lyrical vibe. Named the song ‘18 years was 50 years ago’.

This morning, early hours, I was listening to the electric instrumental version born from the simple acoustic song idea again. And then went back to listen to the quiet acoustic initial idea……again. Back and forth electric, acoustic, electric…. Lyrics started forming to the quietly played and sung out of key tune and I wondered if the initial tune idea could fit the electric format properly. Yes! it can fit the driven chaos. So intend to write lyrics now.

Apologies for ‘sniffing’. I had a fleeting allergy or slight cold it seems. The sinuses are very sensitive at times!

And the electric version which can fit to the little whispered melody? It is crying out for a chorus too.

IF YOU TURNED UP THE VOLUME TO HEAR THE ACOUSTIC PREVIOUS AUDIO, PLEASE TURN IT DOWN AGAIN. THIS ONE BELOW IS LOUD! THANK YOU.

So. In short, there could be two songs develop from a single idea. Sometimes it just happens that way. Especially on a two chord song. I go back home later today…..or if pushed concerning the huge tidy up of our daughter’s old house, then tomorrow.

Monday I can hopefully get a lyric and vocal done on the electric song. Calling it ‘Wrong or Right’. I do like the melody that is buzzing around my brain currently. So fingers are crossed. It will all be re-recorded totally anyways. Why? Well……..

The intention is to start from the beginning of December to re-record 14 songs. The 14 songs were experiments to building knowledge as to how it all works on GarageBand. It has been a really fantastic learning curve. So now the intention is to go back to scratch and look at each song individually over a few days each, analyse improvements and get them sounding a lot more polished. In most cases they need each song’s sectional development, full length/longevity and all the arrangements to be sorted out. Added sung harmonies are a must. All the songs need to be recorded in true earnest, belief in them and taken seriously now. Recording them again, from scratch, will more than likely produce lyrical tweaks and improvements too. A three month project I reckon.