a year of songs: number 23
- Thursday, June 4th: It's the old injuries that live deep
inside of us that take so long to heal. Sometimes they become our security
and identity, and we don't want them to fully heal. Our bone and tissue
know how to heal, but the emotional injuries linger. Number 23, "Heal".
-
- Songs 01 - 10
- (January 1st - March 5th)
- Songs 11-20
- (March 12th - May 14th)
- Songs 21-22
- (May 21st)
Songs released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
- Soundtrack to "Paving the Way" available now
on
All CDs $5 plus s/h
by mail or PayPal
the 52 song project
Hear the "Radio Heartland" interview about "52 Songs" with Dale Connelly of Minnesota Public Radio.
When I began this
project, I intended to experiment
with new sounds and approaches to writing and recording a song. This
week I chose to omit the dominant chord entirely from my song to see how the
melody would change, and how the the harmonic feel would change. Cadences and
phrases really depend on the dominant
chord to return to the home chord, but there are other ways to get there.
Maybe you can hear the difference. Kind of geeky music stuff, I know...
I also chose to begin with the phone book this week. I usually start with
the guitar,
leading to melody, leading to words. I started with the tempo set with whacking
the phonebook, then let the guitar find it's way layered over that sound.
