Posted: Monday, December 17, 2007
Gathering Change is a year old!
New photos for Bye and Cornered have been posted at NeZrecords.com.
Similar to the song Home, both Bye and Cornered were born many years ago and went through many stages to become what they are on the recording. I feel very lucky to have stumbled upon the drum part/rhythm for Bye. It’s actually something for which I feel a great deal of pride. As for the lead guitar, there wasn’t supposed to be one. In fact, mixing had already been started on the song without the lead guitar. Gus had always mentioned there should be one but I could never find something I thought fit. Finally, after many hours of failed attempts, I was able to get a part down that I now think really helps make the song what it is. You’ll have to also listen for the ‘vase’ I played in the song!
Although the sounds of a Puerto Rican cuatro (similarly a tres in Cuba) were heard a bit in the soundtrack of my upbringing, it took hearing authentic Cuban music on a trip to Spain for that ‘double string’ sound to get its hooks in me. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, the song Aye Papacito by Eliades Ochoa will be a great introduction to you of this style of guitar playing. Upon my return from that trip, almost a decade ago, I came up with the lead intro and chorus part to Cornered . Fast forward many years and versions of the song later and Cornered’s music and lyrics were completed close to its final recording. I used a 12 string guitar to try and emulate what a cuatro or tres would sound like and threw in as many percussion instruments as I could to make the song what it is today. Speaking of percussion instruments–almost as proud of the beat/rhythm in Bye is my finding a spot for the guiro (percussion instrument) in the bridge of Cornered. It’s the little things that count, right?
joe
www.NeZrecords.com
New photos for Bye and Cornered have been posted at NeZrecords.com.
Similar to the song Home, both Bye and Cornered were born many years ago and went through many stages to become what they are on the recording. I feel very lucky to have stumbled upon the drum part/rhythm for Bye. It’s actually something for which I feel a great deal of pride. As for the lead guitar, there wasn’t supposed to be one. In fact, mixing had already been started on the song without the lead guitar. Gus had always mentioned there should be one but I could never find something I thought fit. Finally, after many hours of failed attempts, I was able to get a part down that I now think really helps make the song what it is. You’ll have to also listen for the ‘vase’ I played in the song!
Although the sounds of a Puerto Rican cuatro (similarly a tres in Cuba) were heard a bit in the soundtrack of my upbringing, it took hearing authentic Cuban music on a trip to Spain for that ‘double string’ sound to get its hooks in me. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, the song Aye Papacito by Eliades Ochoa will be a great introduction to you of this style of guitar playing. Upon my return from that trip, almost a decade ago, I came up with the lead intro and chorus part to Cornered . Fast forward many years and versions of the song later and Cornered’s music and lyrics were completed close to its final recording. I used a 12 string guitar to try and emulate what a cuatro or tres would sound like and threw in as many percussion instruments as I could to make the song what it is today. Speaking of percussion instruments–almost as proud of the beat/rhythm in Bye is my finding a spot for the guiro (percussion instrument) in the bridge of Cornered. It’s the little things that count, right?
joe
www.NeZrecords.com
