Not a lot of progress. I had plans but they fell through when my step son in Vermont needed help with something and I came-a-runnin’ even though the drive to him was three hours in each direction. Suffice to say that by the time I got home from my unexpected journey there wasn’t a lot of time left for music.
Having said that… I added one new song. It is song number 35. It has the full song structure, bass and drums, and a guide MIDI guitar to help me when I record the real guitars. It also has a melody and lyrics. It was sort of inspired by an interview I saw on YouTube with Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins where they discussed the writing of the song Turn it On Again. Mike played it for Phil and Phil commented that it was in 13/8 time. Mike thought it was in 4/4. Sometime later they did a one off reunion benefit concert with Peter Garbriel that included Pete’s Solisbury Hill and the post-Pete Genesis’ Turn it On Again. Peter thought it would be fun to play drums on the one song he had nothing to do with. He also thought it was in 4/4 time and sort of shit bricks when he realized it was in 13/8.
This is all relevant because song number 35 is in 13/8 time. That is a time signature that I strongly suspect I will never use again. For now though, fun.
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