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Prompt: Chromatic.
Sometime last year I adapted a finger stretching exercise a friend of mine had up on fb to one of my strangest tunings: Bb-Bb-Eb-G-Ab-Bb. It moves down the neck in a chromatic fashion. It sounded so bizarre, but I've wanted to make something of it ever since. The prompt was my cue. Totally LO-FI recording!!! Just wanted to get it down before March ran away....totally hearing some avant garde jazz type of production on this, maybe super stacked vocal harmonies, soprano sax....??
V1
Unexpected
Life deflected
Redirected
Still Connected
V2
Something stirring
Still so blurry
Atoms Whirring
New life Birthing
CH
I'm taking a trip there
Into my center
The air is so fresh where
I belong
Maybe I can trust there's
Always connection
Always a place where
I belong
V3
Now's the time we're
Quick to rhyme here
Move in light years
Cannot fight tears
@jonmeta Mar 6
Gorgeous guitar playing and such dense harmonies. I agree with Tim that the chorus is a refreshing diatonic break, a kind of palate cleanser for the close harmonies in the verses. This is special.
@nancyrost Mar 5
Oh wow, this is so my jam! This is beautiful. I love your chord choices -- unexpected indeed. That guitar sound is absolutely gorgeous. Happy to have discovered you here and intrigued now to hear your other stuff.
@timfatchen Mar 5
Now that's a clever chromaticism. Yes, could expand to a jazz, not necessarily avant garde Chorus is quite lovely and not at all chromatic (!) bt they're clever and entertaining verses. Lyrics are good (and the chorus especially with its non-chromatic resolution) but the gutiarplaying....that's a real hook!
@visiblydistorted Feb 17
This is beautiful. I can't wait to hear the chromatic twist you're imagining. These lyrics are transcendent!
@tawny249 Feb 11
I like this, you said a lot with very few words. It should be even better with chromatic sound. Look forward to a recording. 😀
@ustaknow Feb 11
Nice tuning; that'll be interesting pending, or as per the pattern for the stretch. I personally like what maybe atonally obscure patterns then used with one 😝 -- as I anticipate the outcome.
@sunnymae Feb 11
Wow.. these lyrics are amazing Vicki. What a beautiful flow of clarity,sentiments and intentions. It's complete as spoken word and I'm sure will be greatly adorned by whatever music you put to it!