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Driving home from rehearsal the other night, a melody popped into my head. I've been working on the melody and the drum line for a while, and last night I came up with some chords to underlie it. No bass line as of yet, but that will come.
I've been thinking about our music that I play with The Canvas: With the exception of the times that I take a solo, we have a single voice for melody -- Shahin's guitar. So, what I wanted to do with this tune was add some more variety. I;m taking the idea from Mike Stern, Richard Bona, Pat Metheny -- lots of jazz guys, in other words -- and adding scat-style vocals to the music.
Tonight, I programmed a drum line into my machine and then headed over to Shahin's. We went through each stanza line by line, working on the melody and chord progression. I had tried to get a little clever, adding a few flat/sharp nine chords here and there, but they weren't flowing all that well. We simplified up the tune, and now it moves well.
I'm not sure as to when this will be ready, but I'm quite sure that it won't be for the next show.
Posted by Casper at October 12, 2004 09:56 PM