Paper Triangle

Today was Appastar practice.  We focused on practicing for the acoustic show we’ve got on March 15th at Mojoe’s Hot House and writing new material.  This new song with the working title, “New Bang” has so  much promise.  After being inspired by Sono Mirai Wa Ima by the Pillows, how can the song go wrong?  It actually blends both the Pillows and the Honorary Title quite seamlessly/perfectly.  The whole first 3/4 are very Pillows-esque… then the very end breaks into something that sounds straight from the track “Along The Way” by THT.  I gushed hardcore when that happened.

But yeah, about writing music.  Appastar has finally honed in onto what I believe is the best method of writing songs: JUST JAMMING.  You take someone’s idea and run with it.  Whether it’s a pre-meditated idea or one that just springs out from nowhere, I think the best way to write something is to jam on it and start going “Hey, this is cool… now let’s do this…” etc. etc. and before you know it, you’ve put together a really cool song that takes everyone’s specialties/creativity and throws it into one.  It’s this joining up of creativity that is the best part about making songs this way.  Take it from me: having a solo project is awesome and all, but everything, after a while, starts to feel the same, because one person can only write so many songs alone before his own creativity begins to run itself into circles.  I did the math… I’ve written over 200 songs in 3 years.  Over a hundred of those are easily distinguishable… but I’m definitely starting to hit a time in my life where things run into each other.  But yeah, back to my main point: this new song is easily my favorite song of ours… Apollo’s Dream writes in this same fashion… and idiot ambush did too.  It’s just the way to go.  All three of those bands mentioned are original and have/are gained/gaining a lot of notoriety.  It’s also the most fun way to write music.  It feels so organic and the sense of accomplishment associated with it all afterwards is unbeatable.

We also started writing a really cool song that starts with bass I was gonna use for Apollo’s Dream, but since John shat all over it and said he didn’t like it, Appastar got it.  And I must say… John’s a fool for getting rid of this one.  It’s going to turn into a stellar song.

Today I showed Melinda “Shine” by AD… and we dissected it into three different parts: the first part, where the song stays the same feel until the bridge is the “Infatuation” stage of a relationship.  Everything is really explosive and happy!  Things start off great… you dig it… then things just keep getting better and better.  Finally we reach the bridge and you start thinking, “Is this love, maybe?” because things get mellower and actually, things get really mellow and almost romantic.  But then everything explodes out again and it’s the part where you’re all “Yes.. this is TOTALLY love! and its the BEST thing EVER!”

So yeah.  I gotta do my damn homework.

Peaceizzle.