After four days of collaborating, tonight I wrote a solo song. This is a pretty simple song about lying, but built around a guitar drone to make it sound epic! It took about four hours to write. Comments and constructive criticism are encouraged.
Boring Details: Co-writing over the long weekend was super fun and rather quick-- I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with my friends and colleagues. But collaboration is always a compromise, so it's nice to write something that's purely my own.
I had way too easy a time coming up with melodies tonight, but the first couple were way too pop for the mood I wanted. I was thinking about politics a bit, and I'm still not willing to write a political song in such a rushed manner. However, lying was on my mind, and I starting tossing around lyrics about that.
Last week I had left my guitar tuner over at Jay's place after recording Day 9's song, so I went to retrieve that and talked to Jay a bit, which cleared my mind of the poppy melodies. On the walk back, that's when the guitar drone came into my head, and I worked on that while heading home.
Lyrics are the toughest thing about writing solo, and since this weekend's collaborations, I've been thinking about doing fewer or simpler lyrics. This song tells about a moment, but doesn't really tell a story-- it's not clear what the lie was about, though it certainly seems like it was a game changer.
I like the guitar drone, but it may be a bit too much... if I end up revising this, I may try to make the guitar part more interesting as it progresses. Though, it would be a perfect song to gradually add more instruments in accompaniment during a performance.
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