i’ve been sitting on a track called “stars†(4:13 – 3.9 MB) since about january and i thought i’d take a minute and post it in the hopes that it will spark my desire to get back into writing about tunes and what i’m doing in the studio.
part of my backstory on this is that for my birthday i managed to wrangle not one but two guitars. you can hear the 12 string that my wife and son got me in the background. i’ve decided that the full, scrubbing acoustic sound that i’ve always wanted was simply a 12 string. with it in my arsenal now, i feel that i have a much thicker sound that doesn’t lack that extra sparkle that i really like. so it’s the best of all worlds. now if i could only learn to use fingerpicks so i could play it finger style. but i doubt it.
the other coolio instrument i got was an ibanez hollow body electric. i wanted a nice, clean jazz sound and i spent a good deal of time at the devil’s store (which will go unnamed) trying this, that and the other. i ran the gamut from gibsons down to…well…craptastic epiphones. after going back and forth the punk kid at the counter asked me what i wanted. i told him and he said “you need to try this ibanez.†i told him that i don’t usually go for the ibanez brand and he said “i hear that from a lot of guys your age.†punk. kid.
the worst part was that he was right. a fantastic instrument for not a lot of cash. i really dig it.
so for “stars”, i just started playing the 12 string for the baby. he likes to rock out and strumming really does it for him. the track is about 4:13 and that’s mostly because it needed to be long enough so he wouldn’t fuss. i will probably cut it down and get a better drum track. but as it stands, i finally got to do my one track with I – vi – IV – V – I and a 30 second fade out at the end for good measure. two cliches i really enjoy in one track. who could ask for anything more?
i hope you enjoy it. leave me a comment if you feel like it.
stars by j.c. wilson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at othertime.com.
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