Life Finds A Way
By horatiuromantic on January 23, 2022 10:33 pm
A ballad about a state of being in the in-between, on piano and vocals.
I played around earlier this week and found a phrase that I really liked, one of the most basic things you can do on a piano but highly effective: Fmaj7, Em7, Dm7 and Cmaj7, all with a G in the bass. It's a super melancholic sounding phrase and since I've always wanted to make a song that can make people cry I decided this is the week for it. Disclaimer: I don't think I succeeded but maybe a little. The piano might be too jazzy for a cryfest. I'm especially excited about the very first phrase and the very last I generally think I did a pretty good job - but it took a TON of takes 
The first few days I looped the simple phrase and started dubbing over it with my guitar. I didn't like any of the overdubs but the loop was still mesmerizing. The next few days I kept going back to it. Finally I expanded it with a B part of Abmaj7, Gm7, Fm7 to Fdim to Em7 and wrote some lyrics that I thought best capture the mood of the song. I hope you like them, they came from the heart.
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I was almost as happy with those as with the intro lick
