michelew wrote:
WOW!!!
That was beautiful and deeply moving. Tom and Claire that's something you should both be very proud of.
Tom your playing couldn't have been more solid. It formed a great foundation for Claire's gorgeous singing. I loved the emotion Claire put into her singing. The melody was great and felt really natural. The harmonies were lovely. The lyrics.... captured the love, pain, loneliness and longing so well.
It reminded me of a 50's country song. Or...A slow "It's my Party..."
This is begging to have addition tracks added to it. Keep playing it and developing it. It's such a wide open canvas still that the possibilities as enormous, perhaps a little mandolin-type sound, bass, rhythm (even some simple hand claps), a second guitar. You could really get into it and have a band of Tom and Claire's supporting the beautiful original Tom and Claire track. I say fantastic job and keep having fun building on it.
Tom now that you've revealed your secret identity of song writer, don't fight the urge to show us more. It's very inspiring.
Thanks for sharing your song writing skills and showing us how it's done.
Shel
I am truely bowled over by your comments Michelle, wow!
Interesting how one song can conjour up another in the mind, always facinating to me.
I agree that more layers could be added, I thought maybe partial chords on the high strings as an arpegio may sound good or as a lead,
could take it to a new place musically. There is much scope for creating something new. I actually love playing this, it is fun. It is a fairly straight forward progression, but changes a bit at the chorus to change it up a bit. Only five easy chords (one bar) so most folks could play it.
If I come up with something else I like, i.e. a new song, I will post it, definately!
I am somewhere on the bottom rung of songwriting but will keep at it as it is a great pastime and definately helps on the musical/guitar learning journey and most importantly is great fun!.
Thanks for your comments.
Tom N.
