Song a Day-ish 4 (E, F#m)

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• Back Story
• Lemme start off with a welcome back to the newest blog and song! Number 4 came while sitting on the couch in our living room, my family calls it my “office” because it’s my spot in the house. I was watching TV and playing my telecaster at the same time when I played E to F#m. I remember really liking the way it sounded and just added a rhythm to the chords. It was something catchy enough to give me inspiration to make the idea into a full song.
• Music
• THIS ONE IS SIIIIIIMPLE! Like seriously one of the most uncomplicated songs I had ever written to that point in my songwriting repertoire!
• Like I said earlier, the back and forth pattern and chords were created first but the four hits came because I just wanted to change it up when getting to the end of the phrase.
• I remember vividly having so much trouble recording the hits on guitar which goes from F#m to A, Abm, and then C#m, which doesn’t sound hard but at that time I couldn’t do it! (I just played the song on my guitar to see if I wrote down the right chords and I played it no issue lol) It must have been because of the major-minor back and forth that I wasn’t used to. All I know is the struggle was real lol!
• The verses were made different just by plucking the chords instead of strumming (I did strums with fingernails, didn’t have a pick cause I was trying to be quiet while recording, my parents were asleep) ALSO, the guitar was recorded straight into the Beats microphone so that's why it sounds the way it does. (like stinkapoopoo)
• Anyways, drums were the same thing as the previous 3. You can see in the screenshot that one drum track is yellow and says Kyle. That was a drum track that I made to my liking and it fit well!
• But there is a second one! It was literally only for the intro fill and that’s it lol.
• The organ came from a lack of color. The song was just drums bass and guitar and needed something extra to give it a sound I was okay with. They were just back and forth chords to match but with out the syncopation to give the song some grounding (so everything wasn’t doing the same thing rhythmically).
• The Bridge started with guitar, I just tried making a nice compliment to the surrounding parts and those chords came out. Just had the Bass and Organ follow along and it gave it a little extra flavor, something to change up the song!
• Conclusion
• I’m not exactly sure what to say about this song. It was really one of the first songs where I just wanted to get one out, like I had the idea and just needed to write it down. Which when reading that sentence back is actually a good thing. Whereas #2 was me intending to write a song from the very beginning, this one was an idea on a whim and I just let it take me from what I was doing.

Ok then, with all that being said I think Number 4 was another first. I took the first leap in writing whatever came to my head and not letting anything get in the way of it. I didn’t have anything to record guitar with so I used a headphone’s microphone, I couldn’t make drums yet so I used the drummer, I didn’t know how to fill out a song really well just yet, but I did what I could. And that can be the lesson from this song “Do everything you can with what you have, it’ll only help you learn!”

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