Stand Up
By miraclemiles on September 27, 2020 11:58 pm
I was taking a walk and heard a randomly chosen track, maybe one I'd liked at some point (thanks Apple algorithms, I guess) with a nice acoustic guitar progression and some chill trip-hop drums. It hit the spot so I thought maybe I'd do something like that. Of course, after sitting down to make a track, I made something else entirely. I think that's a good thing. I don't want to recreate something else, I want to do my thing.
I did start with acoustic guitar though. I had some great little acoustic songs / samples from co-worker Sir Groggery (I used his stuff for earlier track this year "Wash"), so thought I'd start with that. Wasn't feeling it in the moment as it was, so chopped it up and got a few ideas going. Then just started jamming on the Push, improvising lots of ideas on different instruments, synths, samples. Got some stuff I liked and kept most of it. It's kind of three different ideas put together. The very ending section is most different and could maybe be its own song. It was the part that has a melody I really liked. To make this feel more like one piece, I took half of that melody and introduced it in the intro and middle sections as well. One of parts made words start swirling in the head, so picked up the mic and started improvising some words. Said something about best way through it is to stand up face it and do it. Which I think is good advice, whatever it is, might as well face it and do it. And whatever it is, it will probably end, especially if you face it and push through. I think these are lyrics:
Bet you never told me it ends
Bet you never told me that the way through it
Is to stand up, face it and do it
Don't worry if you do not know
How it's going to end
You never now what you're gonna find
If you stand up and face it again
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