Elevator music....

[TBman]

I was warming up the other day and stumbled onto a couple of nice sounding "positional changes" for lack of a better word. Not quite melody, but close. I'd like to expand it, but I have a feeling it's just going to be "elevator" music. Melody is so tough.

[David Rock]

Barry:

I'm not sure what this post is about, but you do great stuff! Did you write down those positional changes? One thing leads to another -- well almost always. Melody comes in different forms (arguable no doubt!).

Back to those positional changes...is that a beginning of a humable tune?

Get back to us on this. We all wait with bated breath for the next installment...

Oh, and by the way, all I do is elevatorable. I'm O.K. with that.

Here is a song that was just a 2 bar riff I kept playing, trying to get it. My wife finally said, "O.k. it works, what comes after that?"

What else was I to do but finish the thought?



Regards,
D

[TBman]

Originally Posted by David Rock

Barry:

I'm not sure what this post is about, but you do great stuff! Did you write down those positional changes? One thing leads to another -- well almost always. Melody comes in different forms (arguable no doubt!).

Back to those positional changes...is that a beginning of a humable tune?

Get back to us on this. We all wait with bated breath for the next installment...

Oh, and by the way, all I do is elevatorable. I'm O.K. with that.

Here is a song that was just a 2 bar riff I kept playing, trying to get it. My wife finally said, "O.k. it works, what comes after that?"

What else was I to do but finish the thought?



Regards,
D

David, that sounds good!

I did record the initial idea as I was recording a Petteway cover at the time. I actually have an intro, an A B and C part believe it or not.

I threw a rough recording together just to get this thing out of my system for a while, lol. I may steal bits of it later for other things.

CGCGCD original demo:


Fortunately Soundcloud has an easily accessible delete button,

[islandguitar]

Barry.....just relax and stay with it and I'm sure more will emerge! (Yeah, easy for me to say!) Yes, Melody is elusive!

There are times when I just play what I've got over and over........over days or maybe weeks, and if I'm in a good "zone" and mood and don't force it, my fingers and intuition will kick in with something complimentary to what's already on the books. Maybe a little theory, maybe not. I'm in the midst of one of those now!

Good luck!

[TBman]

Originally Posted by islandguitar

Barry.....just relax and stay with it and I'm sure more will emerge! (Yeah, easy for me to say!) Yes, Melody is elusive!

There are times when I just play what I've got over and over........over days or maybe weeks, and if I'm in a good "zone" and mood and don't force it, my fingers and intuition will kick in with something complimentary to what's already on the books. Maybe a little theory, maybe not. I'm in the midst of one of those now!

Good luck!

I did a rough recording of it (see my second post). It's not really where I wanted to go, this had a life of its own sort of,

I think your method of letting it bake for a while is a good idea!

I have the recording of it now and I was notating it as I was developing it so I have that as well.

It's a start anyway.

[KevWind]

Ya just never know where noodeling position changes ( or progressions ) may lead.

This one started life as a simple GDCG GDCG - G C D G - GDCG noodling progression, capo'ed at the third fret...... the up tempo , and melody came later as did the lyrics

And eventually turned into this

[TBman]

Originally Posted by KevWind

Ya just never know where noodeling position changes ( or progressions ) may lead.

This one started life as a simple GDCG GDCG - G C D G - GDCG noodling progression, capo'ed at the third fret...... the up tempo , and melody came later as did the lyrics

And eventually turned into this

Nice job!

If I had to write lyrics too I'd shoot myself