Originally Posted by BabuMusic
Cool, Chay. Do you ever write out the scores for these parts? I love the way you intertwine them all. You are a master of composing these wonderful instrumentals. They always build so well and carry feelings of hope, encouragement and love of all.

Thanks, Marty! 'Do (I) ever write out the scores for these parts?' Not sure what you mean by "write out the scores", but I always have a 'vision' of how anything's to be arranged and even for some rhythm section instruments I'll have a few different samples to try out to see what works best. Sometimes my original idea plays out, then at other times none of the samples make the grade so I go hunting for something new.
I nearly always have 2 or 3 experimental chord structures in SGU files going at any one time and those I alter, add to and/or delete from as inspiration takes me, so re the positive vibes it's more like they happen on their own as things evolve. I can't recall who it was, but I think it was an American folk singer who said that songs 'pre-exist' in the air and he just happens to reach out and catch one as it passes, and that's always what it seems like to me. It often feels like something seemingly acausal comes into play and has an effect in the creative process so that what finally materialises was 'meant to be' and couldn't have materialised in any other form.
♫ It's a kind of magic, magic, magic ♫

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.