In The Snow

man.. i'm on a roll, and i really like this song. it's full of creepiness and menace and guitar rock out and a cool little drum groove, it really came together. i think i was pretty lucky - it only took a short time, and it really started to "snowball". it reminds me of a particular type of radiohead song.. something around the bends or ok computer, where they were mixing up the pretty and the freak out rock. hmm.. maybe even hail to the theif. if only i could sing like thom yorke.. you wouldn't be able to tell what i was saying, but you wouldn't care 'cause it'd sound beautiful. oh well.

its got a long piano groove, going back and forth between Fmin and Abmaj, ending the phrase on Ebmaj.. kinda odd, especially once i got around to putting guitars and banjo on. i've had to get better at playing in a lot of keys.

the clean guitar that plays the whole way through was nice, there were lots of little pretty bits.. the gnarly guitar that comes in was more trouble, stupid guitar tones and all.. i ended up retuning the guitar a bit and pushing the amp in a funny direction.. but i think it worked. and the banjo sounded kinda hollow and silly at first, but i maxed out this plate reverb in a way i'd never considered before. ha! just keeping turning things up, i guess.

the lyrics are kinda obvious, i suppose. i found an axe 'In The Snow'. ha! now i gotta work on this other tune, with a ukelele on it. it's adorable.