Song #7 of 26 – I Don’t Know Why

Initial BIAB Style – _ELCOAMP – Amplitube Strumming Electric Guitar

Track #1 – RT1717: Bass, Electric, TexasBluesRockStraight Ev 120
Track #2 – RealDrums-NashvilleEven8^5-HiHat, Ride
Track #3 – RealPiano 686: Organ, B3, Background Pop Ev 120
Track #4 – RealGuitar 1683: Guitar, Acoustic, Rhythm, PopPromise Ev16
Track #5 – RealStrings 1025: Guitar, Electric, Strumming CleanOpen Ev
Track #6 – Chris playing Electric Guitar
Track #7 – RT151: Guitar, Electric, Soloist CountryBrent Ev
Track #8– RT522: Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Ev 120
Track #9 – RT1025: Guitar, Electric, Strumming, CleanOpen Eb 120
Track #10 – RT1577: Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm Soul60s Sync Ev 110

Chris sings lead vocals and John sings the harmony vocal; vocals were all run through Melodyne 4 to pull them a little better in tune, with slight reverb using Anwida Soft Reverb Light VST.


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I Don’t Know Why
by Christopher P. Werle and John E. Ford
Copyright © 2002 by Christopher P. Werle and John E. Ford

1 So many times I tried to tell you just how much you mean to me.
Now the winds of change have blown us far apart.
When I think of what we had, it almost breaks my heart. (to CHORUS)

CHORUS
And I don't know why I said goodbye to you.
The reason's unclear, so hard to believe, but it's true.
Of all of the things in this world that I had to do,
I don't know why I said goodbye to you.

2 So much love we shared between us, didn't know just what we had.
Tried to keep the fire burning, ever strong.
Foolish pride cast love aside the day that we went wrong. (to CHORUS)

(Solo Interlude)

(Repeat CHORUS)

3 All that's left of you are mem'ries, fading dreams of things that were.
Finally learned that love was right there, all along.
Wish that I could turn back time to where we both belong. (to CHORUS)

ENDING
I don't know why I said goodbye to you.
I don't know why I said goodbye to you.



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Since I’ve been teleworking since March 2020 (as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic), that has afforded me time at home to work on all the original songs my buddy Chris Werle and I (John Ford) have written. Chris wrote the lyrics, chords, and melody. I then transcribe it into notation, since Chris doesn’t read music. I then write the harmonies, most of the instrumental solos and/or counter melodies, arrange all the instruments, and put everything together.

All songs started in Band-in-a-Box (and some of them are over 20 years old). Then they were worked up in either PowerTracks Pro or RealBand. Since Chris and I live in different states now, I had to rely on previously recorded vocals and his guitar playing from old PowerTracks or RealBand .SEQ files. Because of limitations in RealBand with some VSTi’s, I did have to export the some of the MIDI tracks out of RealBand and render them to audio in Cakewalk (for those that RealBand didn’t render properly), after which I would bring the audio back into RealBand. But most of the songs and the final mix were exclusively rendered from RealBand.

My goal here is to post one song each day until all 26 of the songs have been posted. Some have been posted previously, but I have gone back and reworked all of them, so they are all new mixes and are different from what was originally posted.

Most of the songs are Christian in nature, so if that’s not your thing, that’s fine. But it’s our thing. So without further ado, here is the music.


John

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