Paper Triangle

I came to the realization today that I’m tired of playing guitar.  I’m tired of writing songs with a guitar in my hand and I’m bored of coming up with lyrics.  I love writing bass lines and drum parts and organizing songs.  I also love coming up with harmonies.  That’s what I love to do musically. 

Songs like Shine by AD and New Bang by Appa are like, two of my most favorite songs ever I’ve been apart of… because I had a hand in writing them, a huge hand really, but I didn’t write the guitars or lyrics.  I got to sit back and add my own flair to the song.  I like that kind of power.  Being able to collaborate.  But being able to just enhance… not necessarilly create.

For Shine I wrote the bass and drum parts.  I wrote the second verse lyrics and added harmonies.  I pretty much organized the song.  That was off the hook. 

For New Bang I wrote the piano part and the bass part and will be adding harmonies to it and I helped in the arrangement.

I realized this today as I was thinking about writing new music and how I believed in AD and Appa songs so much more than my own.  Not necessarily because they’re better… but just because I feel more comfortable with those songs.  They’re much more exciting for me.  I also realized how empowered I felt holding a bass tonight at lessons.  It’s just one of those things in life that feels so right.  You can’t always explain it… but you understand it deep inside your soul.

So… am I putting up the guitar?
Possibly.  At least… for a while.