Scratch Notes

I wrote two songs at once trying to create a new song for the new year, but was unsuccessful on both attempts. It's time to talk just a little more about how I rewrite my old songs, like the above, from scratch. When I rewrote the above, I did not have the finished product in my mind from the outset. I only had a vague idea of the overall composition, which I outlined with bar chords on my guitar. This guitar track helped me to know how best to develop my bass line and drum rhythm. Once I was done all that, the finished result suggested the best kinds of words to use and the most effective vocal melody. Only then, after listening to everything, do I realize that I have rewritten an older work. The effort was exactly the same to produce the same result. The musical ideas that inspire my songs bear no resemblance to the songs they end up giving rise to. For instance, my instrumental track, Redemption, came to me with a trumpet playing the lead guitar part. Since I didn't have a synthesizer, I didn't want to record it, but it asserted itself so loudly in my brain when I rewrote that old comedy sketch that I went ahead and played the trumpet part with the guitar. Only then did I recall Blue Rodeo's and Mike Myers' crime with it.
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