I’M BACK Wow it’s been a while, I just looked and it’s 3 months since I posted any new music, I didn’t realise how the time had passed sorry. Anyway, as I said I’m back and I have some new music for you, never before heard anywhere in the world.. ok maybe when I was recording it but apart from that never, honest.

This is a song I wrote sometime around Christmas and to be honest I can’t remember how it came about. The main finger picking piece on the guitar is something I’ve been playing around with for a while, it’s not that complicated to play really but it sounds really impressive, the best things always do. It’s my weak attempt at imitating the kind of finger picking brilliance of Mark Knofler. I always really liked “Romeo & Juliet” by Dire Straights when I was a kid and that acoustic finger picking style really appealed to me. This was just intended to be an acoustic demo originally, something to get the idea recorded so I could add instruments and arrange it all later. Listening back now I don’t think adding more instruments would suit the song. It works pretty well as it is, so I’m gonna leave it. There’s just two acoustic guitars and one vocal track. The second guitar only comes in briefly to do a bit of a solo in the middle and that’s it, so essentially it’s just one guitar and vocal, sometimes simple works best. I have a tendency to get really into production and possibly overdo things a bit, gotta spread those ideas out a bit, make them go further hehe. No need for the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on this one, sorry folks, they’ll be gutted. I’ve leave you to listen to the lyrics of the tune and work out what they mean for yourselves, it’s not too cryptic and hopefully makes some sense. It’s called “Trains” because it mentions trains in the lyrics and I couldn’t think of anything more inventive or profound at the time. Again I’m keeping it simple. Yeah that sounds better

Hope you enjoy the song, leave me a comment to let me know what you think even if you hate it. All feedback is useful. I’m in the process of setting up a new digital studio at the moment which I hope to make open source, you can read about it here. I do have some plans to try and get some recording done in the next fortnight though, so I hope to update with some more new tunes in the coming weeks. Look out for those, take care of yourselves till then, Dan.

 

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