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Music Development: (Un)Drastic by Jody Schneider

I can feel the music wheels beginning to turn again – thank god!  Here’s a development of a song, (Un)Drastic  written by Jody Schneider. 

 

And here's the original version:

[audio:undrastic.mp3|titles=(Un)drastic|artists=Jody Schneider]

The song has this killer catchy lick – almost Coldplayesque (if there is such a word.) You can check out Jody on MySpace and soon on her new website

I’m still playing with string tones but I kinda dig the dueling aspect here as the two different instruments create their own harmonic tension.  More editing to do but you get an idea of where this is going.

The Things You Find In Your Tush

I just found an old development track from 2003 – for the last 18 months it’s been sitting in my iTunes library labeled as Tush by ZZ Top – along with 270 other tracks – thank you iDump!

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I remember working on this track - it was before I had begun to develop the idea of music2work2 and I was just busy at the keyboard; playing, writing, recording.  I wasn’t concerned with form - I was more interested in how I could write different tracks on top of the other and I would play for as long as possible to give myself enough “runway” to eventually get it right.

I’d set a click and then play the piano track – not really thinking - just playing whatever came into my head.  I’d then immediately open another track and play a string pass on top of the piano track, then another string pass and finally a melody track – in this case an electric piano.  The mix is pretty grim and I’ve lost the original individual wave files so I can’t really fix it – bummer!  I did mess with it a little before posting, which is where the image comes from.

I recognize a few of the themes in here – they went on to be developed into early tracks like 1218 and The Duel – I did eventually learn to back off the EP a bit but listening to it now – I’m kinda digging the use of the wheel bends – might have to incorporate that in something new.  For now –I'm going to see what other gems I can find in my Tush.