spantini
COO of me, inc.
LOL! I call it.. The Art of Songwriting : Ping Pong Method
My current project is a friend's song I'm rewriting.
Once I had recomposed it in my head so the guitar and vocal fit well together, I layed down a scratch guitar track. Next I begin writing
a bass part by playing along with the guitar - improvising all the way. After several dozen run throughs, the bass part is developing into
something really nice, however.. one or two little things I've created there don't exactly work with the strumming rhythm of the scratch
guitar track. They do fit nicely with the melody and I really want them in there, so..
I'm at the point where I need to put down the bass and track a new guitar while replaying the bass part in my head. Then go back to the
bass and track that against the new guitar track - see if it meshes. If so, fine. I'll leave these for later and begin on the drums, which should
not present similar problems. Then I can start recording a vocal.
Now the whole time I'm doing this - over days and weeks - my mind is still replaying these parts and I'm continuing to improvise with new bits
and pieces that just pop into it. After getting workable tracks for everything, there's a chance I may want to incorporate a new idea somewhere
and will have to start the whole process over again - ping ponging back and forth to get all the instruments to mesh.
At some point I'm going to have to say "Stop! Print! " , but who knows when..
My current project is a friend's song I'm rewriting.
Once I had recomposed it in my head so the guitar and vocal fit well together, I layed down a scratch guitar track. Next I begin writing
a bass part by playing along with the guitar - improvising all the way. After several dozen run throughs, the bass part is developing into
something really nice, however.. one or two little things I've created there don't exactly work with the strumming rhythm of the scratch
guitar track. They do fit nicely with the melody and I really want them in there, so..
I'm at the point where I need to put down the bass and track a new guitar while replaying the bass part in my head. Then go back to the
bass and track that against the new guitar track - see if it meshes. If so, fine. I'll leave these for later and begin on the drums, which should
not present similar problems. Then I can start recording a vocal.
Now the whole time I'm doing this - over days and weeks - my mind is still replaying these parts and I'm continuing to improvise with new bits
and pieces that just pop into it. After getting workable tracks for everything, there's a chance I may want to incorporate a new idea somewhere
and will have to start the whole process over again - ping ponging back and forth to get all the instruments to mesh.
At some point I'm going to have to say "Stop! Print! " , but who knows when..