This was another good day of work. Is it supposed to be like this? Not in the past. There's usually some speed humps. The only speed humps we seem to have experienced are from the outside. For instance, the financial rewards of this experiment are not exactly overwhelming so far. Don't tell anybody, but I think this is helping. Because we haven't the money to work on this full time we have correctly focused on working methodology. How do we work together? Good question that I am still trying to answer. I think today is a good example.
We watched Jackson Browne and The Eagles on You Tube.
"Take It Easy."
We recognized what they were doing, the good, the bad and the boring. Take It Easy is one of the most unchallenging musical compositions ever penned by a human.There are some clever lyrical twists, but structurally, there is not a lot to write to Homer about. Three or four chords carry the bulk of the song and the live version that we watched featured a big jam on two chords at the end. Now, numbers of chords don't define greatness, but beats do.When it's straight ahead and mathematical like int hat West Coast sound, it either works or it stagnates. In this case - it does both.
So we went into the room with a guitar for the first time today. We laid down the basics of what we saw in cyber world and then we warped the chords to suit ourselves and Stephen added his unique loops and creaks. I wanted to play guitar and piano on this song. The piano makes it easier to write words, the keyboard takes you there some how. Our song is called "Country Song." There are some gaps, but we have a significant portion of a snappy one liner of a song.
The structure is right and the develoment is rapid.
We got coffee at lunch time and we were finished by two in the afternoon. We are working at a very civilised pace. We are not working more than two hours in a stretch. Then a break and then some more work and there is always a self imposed deadline. I think this is good. It's making sense. An industrial town liek this is all based around time. Clock on and clock off, this is exactly how we should be making art for this project.
Loving it. Work. Review. Work. Take it easy.
We watched Jackson Browne and The Eagles on You Tube.
"Take It Easy."
We recognized what they were doing, the good, the bad and the boring. Take It Easy is one of the most unchallenging musical compositions ever penned by a human.There are some clever lyrical twists, but structurally, there is not a lot to write to Homer about. Three or four chords carry the bulk of the song and the live version that we watched featured a big jam on two chords at the end. Now, numbers of chords don't define greatness, but beats do.When it's straight ahead and mathematical like int hat West Coast sound, it either works or it stagnates. In this case - it does both.
So we went into the room with a guitar for the first time today. We laid down the basics of what we saw in cyber world and then we warped the chords to suit ourselves and Stephen added his unique loops and creaks. I wanted to play guitar and piano on this song. The piano makes it easier to write words, the keyboard takes you there some how. Our song is called "Country Song." There are some gaps, but we have a significant portion of a snappy one liner of a song.
The structure is right and the develoment is rapid.
We got coffee at lunch time and we were finished by two in the afternoon. We are working at a very civilised pace. We are not working more than two hours in a stretch. Then a break and then some more work and there is always a self imposed deadline. I think this is good. It's making sense. An industrial town liek this is all based around time. Clock on and clock off, this is exactly how we should be making art for this project.
Loving it. Work. Review. Work. Take it easy.
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