Once again, title is meaningless since I have no words. But before I go too far into this song, I thought I’d bump it to you guys to see what you thought. Don’t want to go the normal alt-country singer-songwriter route here and do it straight forward but not sure how to mix it up.
Could in theory go into Sparklehorse territory with some dark background atmosphere and such. Or it could really go normal Ryan Adams\Wilco route as well. I have a bassline in mind if I go a certain direction that I might play on guitar first and have Aryn retrack it on his bass. Could really use some Greg drums or other instruments too… Should I let the structure breathe a bit more and have some interlude stuff? Should I leave it tight and straight up? You guys have any other suggestions?
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Mike, I can track a bassline tonight in the evening.. this sounds good so far, you are correct in that it is WIDE open and could go in any direction, but nice changes hersofar. I picture some harmonized vocals thickening it up as well… Did you have a line in mind for the bass or would you just like to see what I can come up with?
I have a partial idea for a bass line for this… so I might track that out tonight and send to you… but I want you to play it on bass and not my guitar. I just am not sure what I want on this tune really. Where last month I sort of made music based on whims of what I was working on, I’d like to start finding a genre or style that is really me and not me copying other people so deliberately. So its a bit more self conscious this month I think.