On the wrong foot (song)

A month and a half ago, I wrote¹ that I had started work on a song in 68 time and that the SG7 MIDI guitar was helping me create parts for the song. I've been working on this song ever since, constantly changing bits and pieces, such as redoing the bass part several times and improving the drumming. I wrote words for a first verse in the middle of February, but had problems continuing; my health contributed in no small amount to this slow down. Eventually I finished off the words about a week and a half ago, probably causing the theme of the second half of the song to bear only a slight resemblance to that of the first verse.

For various reasons, I didn't have a chance, nor a singing voice, to record vocals until a few days ago. After making several attempts, I realised that I had set the song in too high a key (Em) for me to sing comfortably so I lowered the track by a tone to Dm. Singing in this new key was much easier and the results sounded good. The final vocal track is a composite of about five different takes, most of them continuing from a spot where the previous take had collapsed, although in one case it was to punch it a word or two in the middle of a verse, and in another case, it was to replace the final line as I had decided to change the words.

I was still making the occasional change to the music track; at one spot, I realised that the notes that I had written were too high for the given instrument (and that's after lowering the pitch) so I had to change that part. Elsewhere, I discovered that I was playing a major third over a minor chord, so one note had to be lowered.

After a successful mix, it occurred to me in bed last night that I could create a harmony vocal for the bridge section, so I did so this morning. I also tried for a harmony for the second verse, but this didn't work out too well, both because I had difficulty in finding suitable notes, but also because it was too much for the track itself. Anyway, the recording "(Starting off) On the wrong foot", working title "Bad day blues", is now complete.

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