Those that have visited my site from the beginning to those that have read my posts and comments over the years will know that I started a musical path early-on in my childhood. From my parents selecting musical instruments for Christmas and my birthdays to my older brother David writing poetry that I would turn into beat and melody (using whatever toys I had available at the time!).
As my interest in poetry grew I tried to soak up what he already knew. Younger, I did not have training, but I had a natural feel for timing/rhythm and melodies. I picked up theory, arrangement, recording techniques and a million other things from people way smarter than me in later years, but early it was just experimentation and the fun in creating.
We shared a lot, critiqued a lot, and bounced around things as they got better and better. Writing lyrics is funny. We use them to tell a story or create a mood. Vocals can put us in a trance or allow us to laugh ourselves silly. Lyrics by themselves they are often trite or ‘nothing, really’. But put them in front of the right music and performance and they can become life altering.
Over the years there were countless songs we co-authored in one way or the other. I often leaned on my strong points in the beginning and created the chord progression and melody, but David learned to play the guitar and we later played piano/keyboards. It is difficult if not Impossible to know what parts originated where. I stopped trying decades ago!
I have posted songs that we are particularly proud to have been even a small part in writing. (I think there might be one or two more I have not posted yet, I will have to check LOL). In the following weeks I would also like to post a number of songs my brother wrote and recorded years ago. He and a few friends went into a recording studio and laid down his new songs even as some were being finalized. As I did not record or perform in his “David K and Studio Way” session, it was great to hear this completed project for the first time.
Here are a few of the favorite songs I posted on this blog.
https://wordpress.com/post/midimike.com/205
https://wordpress.com/post/midimike.com/173
https://wordpress.com/post/midimike.com/116
https://wordpress.com/post/midimike.com/50
I will do a little research and post a few tunes from “David K and Studio Way”.
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