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This week Sam and I started

working on “Stay Awake”

We updated a ROUGH sketch for it

on the Songs-in-Progress page

We started with just bass and drums

laying out the structure of it all

and then I added guitars today.

Keep in mind NONE of these

recorded takes will stay.

There is a whole process of

deciding on drum sounds

and guitar tones that comes later

in this whole process.

There’s currently a synth line

that might change to piano sound

or guitar (heard at the beginning).

A pitfall I often fall into with

writing songs is that I frequently

write them in a key that is

too high for my voice to feel

comfortable in for a whole song.

Being conscious of that this time

I changed the key from D maj

down to C major which feels

MUCH better on my voice.

As I did that though,

the second chord of the chorus

is played on E minor which

I realized quite accidentally

that if I made it an E major chord

it adds a nice twist to the chorus

to set it apart from the verses.

Also, I don’t know why but

it also adds a tinge more of emotion

which speaks to me and ignites

a bit more FEEL into the chorus

lyrics, “Stay awake for me!”

I’m really happy about how

those happy accidents occur

in this process.

Something similar happened with

Sam on drums the other morning

on this song and

we talked about how funny it is

that happy accidents might be

accidents to the conscious mind

but it’s like the subconscious

knows that that’s how the song

is supposed to go lol

so the inspiration kinda comes out

seemingly on accident

but the subconscious mind

was steering it in the right direction

the whole time haha.

I love it.

Anyway, we’ll be getting together

again this Sunday 1/28/24

to keep hashing the song out.

We may even be hopping on

the LIVE stream channel

in the private Discord group

Right now the song is

sorta sounding like

old school Coldplay,

Dashboard Confessional,

with maybe even a hint of

My Chemical Romance.

At first I was trying to fight

it sounding like those bands

but now I think I’m

not so mad about it lol.

Embracing the sound

as it’s unfolding. :)

Trying to let the subconscious

do it’s thang.

STAY TUNED.

/n8

“Fenwick & the Futures

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