The Murky Waters of Songwriting XXIV

Hmm.

Last night, as I sat on my bed revisiting my collection of Guitar World magazines, I was playing 'Here Without You' by 3 Doors Down when I stuck on a capo on the 2nd fret of my banged up acoustic.

I was just strumming out a countrified F#-Bsus chord sequence when I just started humming along to it... and wham! A song came into being.

It's interesting as to how easily some songs can just come to me.. and I hope Alvin will have an interest in this one because it seems that for this song I have a very simple instrumentation in mind: one acoustic, one piano, one telecaster and one bass.

The strumming style for thsi song was pretty much influenced by Gerry, whose fast and energetic strumming in one of his trademark characteristics when he performs.. and as I was half-humming out the vocal melody and adding words to the verses, I reflected upon how it was that Gerry would cover a song, and I'd go back, research on it, learn it and come back and try to out-play him.

So it seems that for this one, I tried to make it a little sort of country-rock feeling, but with a little pop thrown in... plus a vocal harmony, eagles-like kind of thing going on during the chorus... maybe I'll record a demo soon!

From my point of vision, it'll be a straight piano on the left channel, acoustic guitar on the right, telecaster comes in during the solo and gives some more help when the song ends. I dunno.. we'll see what Alvin has to say.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy