It’s definitely my most ambitious attempt in music. Soul Music has been an odd song to put into words, from the experiment and structure of the song, what I’m attempting to do with it, and the journey it’s taken. From rewriting the lyrics, scrapping melodies, adding harmonies, changing synth placements, replacing effects, revising the title, I can’t believe it’s still a song. After all the changing and re-arranging, I stayed true to the limits and vision I first had when coming up with the idea of the song. I’m quite proud of how this has turned out so far. Many times when I’m creating, something will happen during the process that will change the initial idea of the song, and most of the time, I’m quite alright with that. Most of the time, it works out better than I intended – something I didn’t set out to do but takes over the first conception.

Soul Music was different, I knew that I couldn’t compromise the foundation of this song without losing it completely. It’s frustrated me to no end, often I’d put it away after becoming stuck in its core, sometimes for months. I’d revisit the puzzle once in a while to see if I could solve it. Sometimes I’d have marginal successes, sometimes I’d have seemingly great breakthroughs that would end up not being so much of one. Tonight was definitely my biggest piece of progress, and I’ve got the feeling that the ideas that I’ve synced into the track are keepers. Everything that I’d laid down fit perfectly into itself and its surroundings. Each verse of the beat perfectly matches the progression and mood in the lyrics.

Oddly enough, it all came together after re-writing the last lyric (yes, I linked to my previous post, while only having three posts total at the moment on the homepage – that’s right). I’d have never come up with those parts if I hadn’t changed the last verse at all. The content was completely different. I don’t know what else to read into this, other than maybe rewrite lyrics sometimes?