So i’ve finally got round to recording and filming another original. I should have it up tomorrow so keep checking back to see it. It is quite different to my first original as it isn’t just a solo work, but rather I’ve tried to add another dimension by trying to write for two instruments plus the backing instruments. It actually started out as a vocal song (Lazy Days) with lyrics, melody and all the works, but I decided that I’d like to create an instrumental version as sometimes the lyrics didn’t do the feeling justice and plus my youtube channel is really just guitar anyway and I wanted to stick to that. Although I might create another channel with a few people to do other stuff like that, so perhaps you’ll hear it one day. The melody of the electric guitar differs greatly from the original sung melody but I felt it needed to, in that without lyrics the guitar needs to find its own way to ‘sing’. The song is called lazy days for a reason, and that’s basically all its about. It actually started out as a Bossa Rhythm while I was playing around with some jazz chords, and eventually it kind of developed a verse chorus kind of form. I kinda just wrote down what I was feeling at the time and within 20 minutes I pretty much had the original vocal version and lyrics down. That was while I was in singapore actually. When I returned home, I wanted to add another dimension to the piece, to make sure the music would speak the same language as the original lyrics. I’ll post the original lyrics in the video if any of you are interested and let me know whether you get a similar feeling.
So the dinner show is coming up as I have been talking about for the last few weeks and there has been some last minute changes. There is now going to be some opera, and some dancing as well to accompany the guitar which should be fun so hopefully I can get a recording of the performance too. There are so many other things which I am working on too so hopefully I can just get a lot of it down before Uni starts again.
Keep checking this page for the link to the new video!
