The Development of a song
So, I am currently writing my second original song on guitar. not really trying to spend too much time on it. no need to, if ideas come to me while im on a shuttle or laying down then i’ll jsut spend 15 minutes here and there writing it out
I’ve had htis guitar riff that i started playing last year. its pretty simple actually, i just came up with it so i can practice harmonic pulls. i would play it a lot because its fun, and to me at least it sounded pretty cool. eventually it started sounding better, and i often wondered what i could do with it. didn’t expect much though.
on sunday i was listening to Ben Harper “Burn one Down” and he has this one line that says “If you don’t like my fire, then dont come around, because im gonna burn one down” and im thinking hmm he has a qyote that he likes to say. and he put it in a song. do i have a quote i like to use? and i remembred two weeks ago when i defriended somebody on faceboob because of their annoying pictures and i said “I just felt like burning a bridge and watching the show” so sunday night i tried to write a song form it, thinking about that particular person. here is that rough version
Song title: Bridges
i am gonna get you to run
i am gonna get you away from me
i am gonna get you to take in
that your gonna get no more from me
I just wanted you to know
that I felt like burning a bridge
and watching the show
and theres no more free wheat for you to reap
without the sow
its ok…its a start! then this morning i woke up at 6:30 and jsut laid in bed thinking, and a bunch of other ideas came. when i got up at 8, i jsut wrote it out in 15 minutes
here it is. it really came together
Bridges
[beatbox] {dukka dukka tse(5x) dukka dukka tse(5x) dukka dukka tse(5x), dukka (full circle)} 2x
i am gonna get you to run
i am gonna get you away from me
i am gonna get you to know
that your gonna get no more from me (or thers no more free wheat to reap)
My weather’s getting cold
your leaves are crumbling down
I just wanted you to know
(no music)
that I felt like burning a bridge
and watching the show -harmonic-
{bridge}
you’ll be allright without me
and i’ll do quite swell without you
2 lines here
The love is dying
we need to re-ignition
we could bring us back but
[no music] i’ll be burning our bridge
and watching the show -harmonic-
i need two more lines, figure out a bridge (until i do, i’ll jsut beatbox again for a bridge) and fix up the last verse/chorus…and i gotta learn how to beatbox properly
the music riff is inspired by guy butter, michael hedges, and incubus. and the lyrics and beat is inspired by Ben Harper and John Butler
thats enough of this song today. i feel quite focused today and im going to practice gres right now (im in the lib, i jsut wanted to write this up real quick get it out of my head) then research, then write an essay or so, then class, yoga, food. then i’ll try it out at night for 15 minutes. and hten hoepfully get back to work.
