TOOLS OF THE TUNESMITH’S TRADE
Musical, ideas come at the strangest times. Every songwriter has at least one story to tell about how a song idea popped up while the writer was driving down the freeway. Or, watching Bonanza reruns at the Seaside Motel at four in the morning.
TOOLS OF THE TUNESMITH’S TRADE
EXTENSION CHORDS
Allen Hester
Musical, ideas come at the strangest times. Every songwriter has at least one story to tell about how a song idea popped up while the writer was driving down the freeway. Or, watching Bonanza reruns at the Seaside Motel at four in the morning. But when inspiration does come, the writer’s instinct is to grab the nearest available brown paper sack and piece of charcoal and start scribbling.
Getting a lyric on paper is hard enough in itself, but when it comes to getting a musical idea onto some kind of tape, the difficulty becomes even greater^ Relatively few musicians are in the position to be able to go into a studio and say to themselves, “I’ll just sit here in deep concentration until I write a hit song.”