This is something that has been said by countless other songwriters before, so please think of this as my concurring opinion. Anyhow, I've been in this quasi-rut, finding all chord progressions to be cliche, and all keys to sound pretty much the same. So I decided to drop the guitar (for the time being), and I picked up a ukulele. That was already a good decision, as it provided a nice change of voice.
I changed some of the chord voicings around...suspended notes and such...and I was on to something. Basically, it sounded like the riff from Boston's "More Than a Feeling" but with a ukulele and suspended chords. Cool.
So I gently put away the ukulele, and I picked up the guitar I had dropped. Added a capo, played the similar voicings on the guitar, and BOOM! I'm playing a re-energized song. It still hints of "More Than a Feeling," but what I-IV-vi-V progression doesn't?
Monday, August 20, 2007
Another Point of View
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Labels: guitar, society of gloves, songwriting, ukulele
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