Another song

I began another song tonight.  It always fascinates me how these songs start.  I was watching YouTube when I saw that someone had synced the Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon.  I was watching that when I saw a link to a documentary on Wish You Were Here.  In that, Gilmour mentions that the first 4 opening notes were all he had.  He played it to Waters and Roger ran with it.  So I was playing those 4 notes when it touched off something different for me.  Not the same notes.  There is no similarity to the Pink Floyd song. As with the alternate tuning song, no title yet.  I'm sure I'll present it in the next podcast.

An old website with a few surprises

www.openexplained.weebly.com

Unveil and Reveal

The home website: www.unveilandreveal.com

Open Tuning

I'm finally going to start experimenting with composing in an open tuning for this album.  I've done one song in drop D and one in DADGAD with a capo on the 5th fret.  After listening to Alex de Grassi's The Water Garden tonight I've decided to use that open tuning - DAGCGC.  I went to start tonight and broke the third string trying to get it up to C.

8/12/13

Yesterday and today I worked on the head of a jazz chord-melody.  It seems simple for a jazz song,
but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  Claire, my 4 year old, heard me playing it and liked it.  She said
it was a sleepy song.  So it will be called Claire’s lullaby.

6/17/13

I came across a title for a song tonight.  Riastrad.  I don’t usually start with a title and create a song, but it has happened a few times.

6/14/13

I’m headed to the shed this evening for some more recording.  What is the shed?  Based off the phrase “woodsheddin”, it is literally my shed that I built to go practice.  Having 4 children in the house, it is neither quiet enough to record nor practice.  Likewise, I needed somewhere I could play my electric after the children go to bed at 8 PM.  So, the shed is where I go.  It is a simple building with about a 10X16 footprint about 50 yards from the house.  It houses my amps (re-issues of a ’65 Twin and a Princeton), effects, and most of my 10 guitars.  It also houses my stereo, albums, reel-to-reel, an old computer, and back-up drives with my MP3 databases.  Recording is taking place these days with a Zoom H4N.  To plug into that I am looking at a couple of different mics for the recording of the CD.  I’m looking at a Shure SM81, paired with either a Rode M3 or an AKG C 451 B.  For demo’ing and recording, I’m still using the on-board Zoom mics.