This is a track that I have started working on. It is something that has been stuck in my head for a very, very long time now. The melody is one that I feel sucks me in and just won’t let go.
I finally got some help from my friend John Gutierrez in Florida who helped me map out what chords I should have been using for the melody. It turns out that my deaf ass was playing/singing the totally wrong chords for what I really wanted to sing. My friend and guitar player in HISTORY for SALE the incredible Keefe O’Neill is going to be helping me with some of his electric guitar wizardry and Doug Warren is going to lay some tasty bass down. This track is one that just might be the foundation for my next Mark Young solo record. Or it could end up being a HISTORY for SALE track. 2013 is kind of open right now…
The whole idea behind this song and the structure is “less is more”. I have been really trying to study the idea that simpler parts when combined with other simpler parts…create an amazing whole. The last HISTORY for SALE record had been slightly criticized for being too busy. I have been told that the combination of all the melodies being played occupies too much brainspace for the “non-musician” and it makes it hard to listen to. After listening with open mind and fresh ears…those people were and are 100% correct. The parts (drums, bass, guitar, vocals) are all stupid good…like some of the best nobody music I have heard, but when combined or stacked up into a song…there is just too much going on.
Simple parts let the melody breathe. Simple parts help create a foundation for the vocals. Simple parts help carry the story, not pound it into the ground.
I will be recording, mixing, and possibly mastering my next record in my little home studio. I will be doing all the production work as well. I just can’t afford to record anything out of house right now but don’t want to wait around to make noise. I can’t wait around to make noise any longer. The 2% Social Security tax increase pretty much has erased my budgeted music money for the year. Thanks .GOV for the love…
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