Tao Jones
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1/31/2010 1:46:53 PM
So This is What I Was Working on While Thinking About Harmonic Development
I put all these dubs on "Three Boats of Cedar." Well, Matt added the cajon while I played bass over Christmas. But then it needed development, and in that process I really came to see with this song how each add on could be a harmonic extension and thus stay off the thickness. Hope I didn't get carried away. It is a bit fluttery, but I like the harmonic interplay.
http://iacmusic.com/songs.aspx?SongID=74506&ArtistID=8956
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Hop On Pop
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2/1/2010 8:23:57 AM
Bob!
Would you stop doing this to me?!
Or, would you at least have my baby?
;-)
Great tune, braw. I love the winds! They reminds me a little of something that might be on Moody Blues album track or maybe the acoustic side of Led Zeppelin... or something like that. You John Paul Jones, you!
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Tao Jones
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2/1/2010 7:49:32 PM
---- Updated 2/1/2010 8:01:55 PM
Thank you all for listening and giving the song a home. Without you guys I don't really get heard at all. I'm gonna make these things all my life I imagine, but it sure is cool to imagine people hearing it.
I added that second guitar by just harmonizing mostly the singing melody, and then I added those flutes by just harmonizing to the chord structure, trying to stay out of the sludgey central areas. You know. There was already the acoustic guitar holding such a range of note, that you have to go looking for new steps, and I'm just really taken these days by all those steps available.
I put the bass down before all those harmonies. I listen now and think I could step that bass upon some other steps, but then I also am getting the "sacred" vibe that says I am not allowed to touch it. It went down at the same time Matt added his cajon, so we were playing in real time together, and the further I go down this journey of music the more I believe in the sacredness of notes played together.
We were playing to an acoustic and voice recording I did months ago, but when we did the bass and cajon to that at the same time, it brought out the realness of friends playing...
I hope it gets heard. It has its own strength...
The story does hold together, it just seems surreal...
It's about the price of lives to the natives...
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