Been thinking a while now about the instrumental tunes I am messing about with and trialing. Is there a subliminal agenda that is in force?

A while back I was speaking to a good friend I first met thirty years ago. One of those friends you don’t see for years and you meet unexpectedly and carry on chatting as if the last meet up was yesterday. She was speaking of an all female choir she belonged to. Talking over the idea of inclusions to future song recordings, I mentioned the idea of bringing their voices to a future recording session. Maybe a song or two. She was enthusiastic and really positive.

The instrumentals I keep messing about with are basically little experimentations in learning how GarageBand works. However. What they have turned out to be now is a bunch of simple interesting melodies. I have played them off the hoof, and made them up on the spot. I realise that the plink plonk of keyboard notes somehow let inner tunes explode into reality. I could easily substitute a simply played keyboard melody and expand it into weaving vocals and lyrics. The subconscious musical brain works in mysterious ways.

Where I used to sing ‘la la la’ to find a melody, the keyboard is producing the same. La la la expands and nuance explodes when lyrics come into the equation. The keyboard plink plonk is the base. I can’t play keyboards with any skill. Tunes that are possibilities? Opportunities exist in naivity because of the simplicity of only being able to play simple/core tunes. I keep saying ‘I am only a bass player’. Ain’t that the truth. Wish I was on Paul McCartney’s level of being only a bass player!

However, having said this, I do find myself singing the keyboard core and then expanding it into a more fluid nature of vocalised possibilities as I play these instrumentals back. Sometimes even try to harmonise with them. I have vocal tunes to most of the instrumentals I have on file. Just not the lyrics.

Here are three recent examples of instrumental experiments quickly written over the last few weeks. One older example as the fourth. The second one? Me? Simply found in Dad Dancing mode around the living room like Christopher Walken in ‘That’ Fatboy Slim iconic video. Yup! Shoulder shrugs and pointing fingers to the sky were involved. Guilty as charged. Self Nepotism.

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Hey ho,

let’s see where they can………Go!