We are going forward with one of our tunes that is waiting in the tank. This song is called Spin and the basis idea is about an individual voicing their reluctance to “fall for”, or follow blindly the opinions and beliefs of others who push or promote their Religious or Political discourse.

Verse lyrics are those of a so-called “believer” in a Religion or Political view and it is answered by the second voice in the chorus with; “You can’t Spin me”. This is the simple form of the idea here. The actual lyrics have not been written or cemented yet, but it will be very easy to come up with these words. Your humble narrator will write the verse lyrics and Dave will write the Chorus lyrics.

Scratch Takes

There was a time when Dave, Don, and Myself would never let anyone hear our rough scratch tracks. Scratch tracks being the first rough ideas of a song. These cuts are almost always just one instrument and a voice or two and there are no lyrics written yet. We just “scat” through the idea so we can get a basic melodic structure and chord pattern to the song idea.

Now we really don’t care what anyone hears, so we are going to post these initial scratch tracks to diary each song project.

Scratch 1 -

Scratch 2 -

Tracking Process

We will be sending Don our finished bed tracks for spin in a Garageband project file so he can lay down the percussion and other track ideas he has. Then Don will send us the project file back using FTP.

Then Dave and I will finish tracking the tune. Dave will mix it and I will master it and make a video for Youtube. Done.

So lyrics are coming soon, and Spin is on it’s way to being fully written, arranged and recorded.

Status of Songs in Production:

Mary Makes a Radio is now in the mixing stage and almost done. Mastering will be next week, and the it will be posted.