It Won't Happen Here (song demo)

Hello, I've been busy getting back into playing my telecaster!

I had a lovely chat with my bandmate Olivia from Waxlimbs the other day about trying different tunings as a songwriting prompt, and I ended up putting that inspiration into... changing the ancient strings on this guitar.

I didn't end up using a very different tuning at all, in fact I found myself in Drop D. Here's what I've written so far:

This song can be characterized by its very off-kilter time signature. To be truthful, I haven't sat down to figure out what the timing actually is, since it's all been by feel so far. Guitars are wonderful stim toys, aren't they?

It's been really nice to get back into this guitar. I don't play a lot of single-coil stuff these days, and getting re-aquainted with the things a telecaster can do has been refreshing. There's nothing quite like the neck pickup on these things, though I admittedly am not using it here.^[1]

For bass, I'm doing my typical Dingwall thing with a bit less dirt than usual to allow the guitars to do the heavy lifting. The drums are The Invasion by GetGood Drums.

Beyond music, I've been working on a website commission for another musician which has been a lovely experience, and I can't wait to be able to show that off!

I still need to finish up my portfolio section for this site, though most of the work will just be bringing over the project data/copy. Grunt work, basically.

Till next time!