Songwriting: A Slight Return

[mandysee_mandydo]

Lately I've taken up songwriting again, which is very cool. I actually resurrected an old song idea in DADGAD tuning, slightly reworked it and did something I've wanted to do with a song for a long time: shifting triads over a pedal tone. It's actually coming along qute nicely, though it definitely shows my pre-Dark-Side Pink Floyd influences and hints of my brief classical training. I'm trying to get the computer to record properly so I don't have a clip of the new and improved version, but here's a clip of the old version. Please disregard the second half. I recorded it at the same time for ease.

Old kinda okay version played too fast...

I'll post a recording of the new version when I can make one successfully. I plan to leave it instrumental with the acoustic guitar as accompaniment. Most likely it'll have electric guitar orchestration over the acoustic accompaniment. I didn't focus on voice leading on the shifting triads added in the new version because the melody is going to be in the guitar orchestration.

EDIT
As promised, here's a decent demo recording that gives you a good idea of where I'm going with this song. The technique is sloppy but it's the best I could do for now first thing in the morning. :P

Newly revised demo version...

Comments

[futuresuperhero.livejournal.com]

Nice! I like the new section - the "tenser" chords add a nice contrast!

BTW the URL for the second version is missing the /solo directory in its name...

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D I'm really glad I was able to come up with something tense and fitting. You'd think it would be easy to just throw in a pedal tone anywhere but this is the first time I've ever done it anywhere near convincing. I really have a whole new appreciation for how Chris Squire can pull it off regularly and convincingly in the many Yes songs in which he has.

And thanks for letting me know about the URL! I have since fixed it. ;)