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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Easy vs. Hard / Splitsville |
| Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 09:18:30 -0400 |
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At Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 07:58:19 Rob wrote:
>Yeah, I can see your point that sometimes and for some people it's easy.
>For McC, it was easy to right >Yesterday. Similar to say, basketball is
>easy for Jordan/Magic/Bird, etc of that level.
This is but one, unique, example. People rarely discuss the other 250 Beatle
songs that Lennon and McCartney spent much longer crafting. "You Know My
Name, Look Up The Number" took nearly 6 years to record cause they couldn't
figure out how to transition the pieces. In the end, as humourous and
kitsche the song is, it failed as a composition.
I too, on occasion have been struck by lightning. A song about my wife &
kids called "Rest In Peace" on my latest album took less time to write than
it did to actually perform it all the way through for the first time. In
fact, I wrote one verse on guitar, scribbled the lyrics for the next two
verses, created the words and music to the bridge, drove to the recordings
studio and laid it down, as is in two passes.
On my current record I was set to meet a bunch of back-up vocalists at a
session one morning to do some overdubs on an existing song. I get a call an
hour before the session that two of the singers had scheduling conflicts and
only one was set to show up. So rather than waste a session that was going
to cost me money, I composed a new song in 25 minutes, got in the car, went
to the studio, showed the backing vocalist his parts and we had the sucker
done in 4 hours.
But other songs have been a struggle. I have two songs that are incomplete
in my arsenal....one is 27 years old and contains a killer "Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle"
type guitar riff....and the other is 4 years old. The first song has stumped
my ability to drive the killer riff into a killer chorus. The second has
eluded my ability to set words to it (which has NEVER been a problem
before). It may get recorded and stay an instrumental. But, I'm also
thinking that I may need to collaborate to complete them both.
For me, writing is very easy. I've got nearly 500 tunes in my back
catalogue. Most of them I've abandoned in recent years as I've grown as a
songwriter and become a better musician. My current personal situation
informs my songs and those tunes from the past, though unrecorded, were
written by an older, naive version of me and will probably remain buried
forever. We'll see how I feel about that when I hit a writers block in the
future :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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