Nights like tonight I'm never sure whether I should congratulate myself on getting out of a trap, or chide myself for falling into one in the first place.
In sticking with my goal to get one thing done each night in regards to the EP project, I went back to a chorus that I have loved ever since I wrote it. The problem being a lack of an equally cool verse progression. In so doing, I actually went all the way back to the page in my notebook where I first started to block out the song. What I found threw me for a bit of a loop: in my original idea, I had managed to find a progression that not only fit the chorus, but was also fairly straightforward and simple. I wrote it down as a "basic idea," and then went in search of the ever-elusive lost chord that I thought (at the time) would take the idea over the top.
Long story short, I never found my other chord, and in the process, I ignored (for a while anyway) an idea that works perfectly for the music that I had. Sometimes, I think songwriters have a tendency to overthink things. A lot of the time that's a good thing, as it forces us to wrap our minds around things we haven't considered yet, but in this case, I feel like the search took me farther away from what the song needed. I'm glad I was able to fix that tonight.
In sticking with my goal to get one thing done each night in regards to the EP project, I went back to a chorus that I have loved ever since I wrote it. The problem being a lack of an equally cool verse progression. In so doing, I actually went all the way back to the page in my notebook where I first started to block out the song. What I found threw me for a bit of a loop: in my original idea, I had managed to find a progression that not only fit the chorus, but was also fairly straightforward and simple. I wrote it down as a "basic idea," and then went in search of the ever-elusive lost chord that I thought (at the time) would take the idea over the top.
Long story short, I never found my other chord, and in the process, I ignored (for a while anyway) an idea that works perfectly for the music that I had. Sometimes, I think songwriters have a tendency to overthink things. A lot of the time that's a good thing, as it forces us to wrap our minds around things we haven't considered yet, but in this case, I feel like the search took me farther away from what the song needed. I'm glad I was able to fix that tonight.
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