- Backstory:
- This song came from my first real inspiration in over half a year. Oscar Night, February 26th, 2017. Now those of you who really know me know that I’m like 100% in love with Moana’s voice actress, Auli’i Cravalho. Like school girl level lol. I saw her for the first time glammed up and I literally could not keep still and my heart was pounding so hard that I was sure my parents could hear it across the living room! All I can say is every time she was mentioned or was shown, I swooned a bit internally (and maybe externally if I'm honest). What I’m trying to get across is that it made my inner Kiddo super excited and I had to express it somehow! It was undoubtably a catalyst!
- After the performance and the Oscars finished, I had this riff in my head, it was slow but the notes were all there. That would end up becoming the first part of the guitar solo, but it started off being almost morbid (like a sad song) until I realized I was getting nowhere with it. I was trying to come from a place emotionally that I couldn't even imagine being at because of how happy I was that night. So I put the riff in my mind to the guitar and found the chords to fit them, went on GarageBand and just opened a new session (the first one ever on my new laptop). It really was just the perfect way to kickstart these 100!
- Music:
- So it’s now around midnight and I'm working on this song without a mic (all guitar parts played acoustically off my Telecaster and into my Beats headphone’s microphone) and just a crappy USB MIDI controller keyboard. I kind of just let the song take me and it went to a surfer sort of vibe.
- I’m not really sure how I came up with the bridge section but it came fairly naturally if I remember correctly, and I just had fun layering guitars and Clavichords with some chorus effects on them. The solo, which has the same chords as the choruses came next, and I added the Bridge section to the back of the solo on a whim just to give it some color and it worked perfectly. Experimenting started paying off and I was loving what I was hearing. P.S. I cheated and used a drummer from GB cause I wasn't good at hearing drum patterns that fit the songs yet (think that lasted for like the first ten songs or so).
- Side note: You’ll notice it’s honestly not that great of a recording but it was my first time using GarageBand on my laptop and was still figuring it out. I didn't even know how to use quantization (putting notes in time if you don't know), but I keep it the way it is in order to remind me where I started and How Far I’ve Come. (yes that was a Moana reference)
- Now the words actually didn’t come into fruition until I was on like song #60. I always intended to have words on it but it wasn’t until that far into the whole 100 that I felt ready to try. I really don’t have much to say about the lyrics, mainly because they were just filler words that I molded into a story, so I can’t really even say it has anything to do with me. But the melodies started with the chorus, then verses and finally bridge.
- Closing
- I was and still am such a fan of this song because of what it represents for me…Regaining the feeling of control in my life back, my love for music and the love of creating music. It’s simple and nothing extraordinary but it's such an important song in my life and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
This is where I figured out what I wanted to do. I remembered the TED Talk and thought, “Now’s my chance, but don't be so tough on yourself, a song everyday is just too fuckin hard and would ruin the creative process for you so the ‘ish’ will give you at least a little leeway. But you can’t stop writing just cause you’re allowed to take a break. ‘So Stick to it!!!’”
P.S. This is gonna be the only song with lyrics until like 80, so if you’re expecting lyrics you have come to the wrong blog lol.
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