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Shahin, Brett and I got together today to both remember how our old songs go and keep working on the new ones. Down the memory hole go Red Leaves (we did okay), Talking String (which we should really junk) and Soho (a B+ on it). After warming up, we worked on Lemmings.
So far, Lemmings is a sort of country/jazzy tune with a little metal/Yngwie influence for fun. Of our newer tunes, this is the one I'm least digging. Sometimes, the mood strikes and it's fun. Other wise, it' just something to get through.
Green Island Samba on the other hand, is just great fun. It started before I left as a simple, very upbeat Samba groove (I-IV-V in a major key). It was so much fun (and irresistibly infectious) that we're building an entire song around it. The "Green Island" part comes from an arpeggio exercise that I was fooling around with. Playing through truncated 7th's in 6/8 time, it sounds almost Celtic. So, I moved the exercise to be in the same key as the groove and played it over top. Amazingly enough, it fit, so we're going to go with it.
Posted by Casper at January 21, 2006 05:10 PM