Fall (Inception)

Fall (Inception)

OK, tried creating a number of blogs, but I think I have finally hit on an idea that I might stick through with.

The idea will be to follow through with the evolution of some of the songs I am writing for my current band - Frontline Caste - from start to finish. If you don't know who we are, you can check out our band at Reverb Nation or on Facebook.

So, first stage was getting an idea for a song. This song started lyric first, and if you want to get into an argument about which one comes first, words or music, let me just say that I'm fairly ambidextrous in my song writing. I used to start music first because I'm stronger as a lyricist, so I tried to find rifts that I enjoyed first, knowing that I could write lyrics around anything I wrote. Wit the new band, however, I'm working with a guitarist who also contributes to the songwriting, so it's not an issue anymore.

This one came from a simple lyrical hook:

Don't let me fall

I need you to keep me sane

To keep my head in the game. 

Nothing mind-blowing yet, fairly cliched, but it's coming from a real place so I trust that there's a store of emotion when the bulk of the song writing comes. A week ago we had one of those gigs where some things went right and some things went horribly wrong. One cover in particular came out vocally terrible, something I didn't realise until I saw the video. I asked my band why no one told me in practice that the vocals were off and my guitarist said he thought I was holding back. 

So its a simple idea of trusting someone to tell you the truth, even if its not what you want to hear. 

A quick proviso, though. I often find, as I'm working on a song, that the initial idea for the song is abandoned and something else put in its place. 

I'll post the guitar rifts I jammed out around this soon and let you hear the initial ideas musically. Don't worry, they'll be bastardised as soon as I take it into the band room, especially because Simon will want to put this in some odd time signature - and we'll compromise and try to make some parts of the song rhythmically different but push forward on others.