Blog 7 (Week 3)

 

This week we're finishing up the songs that we’ve started, and are starting to make the last song of the album. The last song was very important to us, so we wanted to make sure it was very touching, but not too corny. I knew I wanted some type of guitar because guitars can be super pretty, somewhat sad, and extremely nostalgic. That was the feeling we were going for for the last song. One night, at around midnight, I was chilling on my bed and decided to grab my guitar. I don’t know many chords so I kind of put my fingers in random places and hope it sounds good when I strum. However, with a stroke of luck, I found a really pretty chord progression that conveyed the exact same feelings that I mentioned earlier. I believe it is a e7, c7, amin7, bmin, chord progression. I spend a good while choosing what kind of picking pattern I wanted to use for the rhythm. In the end I decided to keep it very simple, and somewhat empty in order to maximize space for Angus’ vocals. You’ll hear it once we finish. I think it might be my favorite song on the album, depending on how it comes out. Angus always comes up with the best melodies, so I’m very excited to see what it all sounds like once we put it into production. The vocals are going to be very pretty and hopefully somewhat tear jerking. When we were writing the song, I described it as a song that people would wish was longer. I will be leaving Hawken feeling like I want to spend one more year there because I feel like I want to stay with my friends for a bit longer, so we want to make a song that makes these people feel the same way.