tonight, during a good hang out with our friends Greg and Katie, I made a bold choice. Katie, who is off to a great start as a professional photographer, asked me to do her a favor. she is putting together this slide show for a wedding and found out that it costs quite a bit more than she anticipated to "use" a "real" song. to make a short story shorter, she asked me if I would be interested in writing a song to use in that slide show, and in turn, she would give me credit for the song (by using my name and such).
this is actually not my first time writing a song for a wedding.
when my sister got married in '03, she also asked me to play a song at their wedding. this song had no words, just a little doo-dad I make up that was a 3-4 minutes long. I have no recollection of the song, other than the fact that I used the same tuning used in "narcolepsy" by third eye blind. so it had a somewhat similar feel.
while I have no aspiration to be a wedding singer, I did see a few bene's (benefits) other than helping out a good friend. 1) I haven't really worked at songwriting since Noah was born and 2) this is a good opportunity to force a completed song out of myself.
I have 3 weeks to finish this, so already feeling the pressure, I started tonight. even though I don't know this couple I'm writing the song for, (and probably never will) I am still surprisingly anal about putting out a quality product - plus I don't want to make Katie look bad. so tonight I fiddled around with the acoustic. not happy with what came of it, I switched over to the les paul and came up with a riff I liked. I ended up laying a few tracks down. I think I'm off to a good start. I also finally broke down and learned how to actually use some cool effects with the software I have.
wish me luck - t minus 20 days.
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