Okay, so the second verse came as I was driving to
work. I have a twenty-five minute commute and I often use
it to reactivate whatever was on my musical mind the night before. I find it is a pretty productive time to come
up with lyrics or melody ideas. If I
don’t feel like working on a song I listen to my favorite radio station WTMD at
Towson State University. This isn’t just
an unsolicited pat on the back. I
actually hear a lot of good and inspiring new music on this station. Much better than listening to the classic
rock or country stations. Good music there as well, but I hunger for fresh
musical meat, you know. I keep a small digital voice recorder with me
at all times. It is invaluable as a
songwriter’s tool. I didn’t have it with
me today for some reason so I just had to write the words down as soon as I got
to work. Fortunately I already had the
chord structure and melody from the first verse and the chorus. The words to the chorus came right before I
recorded this. I just decided I had to
have something more to record so when I sat down to record the second verse I
told myself to pull something out.
Sometimes that impatience and focus works, and sometimes you just have
to consider the failed struggle a “seeding” time. This time I guess there were already some
seeds sprouting.
So there we have the first verse and chorus. That, as usual is the easy part. In a way, I’ve said everything I wanted to
say. The task now is to either say it
again in a second verse, and maybe a
bridge, but in a completely different way.
That, or realize there’s really something else to say, which is a great
deal more satisfying. I don’t know
about this young fella’ yet. There’s
nothing jumping out at me, but sitting on it for a couple of days with the
understanding that my mind should be running it in the background should
hopefully lead to some lovely nugget.
I’ll let you know how many days it takes. In the meantime I’ll try to post a couple of
other things or maybe even start another song.
Nitey-nite.
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