Saturday, September 25, 2010

Humanist Hymn


Got a version of the new song, "Let It Go,"  recorded. It's still ragged -- vocals are off a hair, timing, too, but you can get a general idea of what I'm going for if you want to have a listen. Here, or in the music player down the page. I'll redo this one once I learn how to play it.

That's not something you think about if you don't write songs. I mean, mostly, we listen to something we like on the radio or live or from an album, sing along, maybe look at the words in the liner notes, to learn to sing it. If you are using music or lyric sheets, you can do that. But just because you write a song doesn't mean you know it -- you have to learn it as if it was done by somebody else. Odd.

1 comment:

Rory said...

"But just because you write a song doesn't mean you know it -- you have to learn it as if it was done by somebody else."

Thanks for that Steve. A telling detail, insider information in from a world I'm unfamiliar with.

It also applies to a lot of other things, re knowledge versus performance.
Very cool.