Sometimes when I’m writing a piece of music, if I write it on guitar, I’ll later add in bass an other instruments, and by the time I’m done, the guitar isn’t nearly as prominent as I originally intended. It adds tone or color, and I feel like the verses of this song is a pretty…
Tag: rock
A Million Miles Away
When I first bought my Ibanez AS73 semi-hollowbody, one of the first things I came up with was the main chord progression for this song. I came up with a couple other parts to go along with it, but nothing ever seemed to “click”, and so a very rough demo just sat on my hard…
Crunkjam ’18 (Family Fight Night)
Every year my wife’s friends got together around Thanksgiving for a friendsgiving dinner. As the years progressed, more and more children began showing up as people had kids. During Thanksgiving 2018, I developed a migraine, and all of those infants and toddlers cut right through my skull. I asked my wife if she would be…
You’re Going to Want to Move Faster
Last weekend I started messing around on guitar, trying to come up with something simple. And after about five minutes, I had most of the parts to this song put together. I started laying down scratch guitar parts and programmed some basic drums. After practicing the song a bit, I re-wrote the drums, added some…
Listen to Me
Shortly before Christmas 2020, I plugged my guitar into my amp and within ten minutes I’d written the majority of this song. Sometimes music is a process, where you add little bits here and there, building a song up like a house. But sometimes writing music is plugging in and letting it out–it just comes…