Hi JosieC

Your welcoming words are so kind. It's a pleasure to have such open-minded musicians commenting.

How do you go about recording a thing like this? Here are the four steps:

As I explained to Alyn, above, the drum part was developed in BIAB first, using the bar settings to get the 7/4 and 2/2 measures.

Then, I did the bass line, which is pretty simple.

With this rhythmic foundation, the keyboard part came next. There are only two chord forms (not even three!) - essentially triads - that get moved around. But they are also "slash chords" - like E/F (E major triad with F in the bass). Pick up your guitar and, not using your index finger, play (from the bottom of the neck upward) G# on the E string, E on the B string and B on the G string. You should recognize it as an E major triad. Now, your index finger is going to completely re-color this tonality by pressing down on F on the D string. E is the tonic and F raises it a half step. Try playing just the low E string and F on the D string. Pretty weird, no?

Then came the final and easiest part (joke) - improvising on this abominable thing. Let's say it was a challenge.

Dean

Last edited by aleck rand; 06/22/15 08:30 AM.