{"id":7435,"date":"2021-01-26T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:42:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T04:42:59","slug":"composers-sketchbook-track-12-honky-tonk-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/composers-sketchbook-track-12-honky-tonk-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"A Composer&#8217;s Sketchbook | The 1970s Track 12 | Honky Tonk Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"7375\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/composers-sketchbook-track-1-whats-so-wrong-with-suicide\/composers-sketchbook-background\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"580,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Composers Sketchbook Background\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background-300x155.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg 580w, https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Track-12.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When doing a jam session, I usually start with a little prepared part &#8211; some fragment of a melody or chord progression that intrigued me enough to record it.  Once I&#8217;ve played that part, I just keep on going as long as the Muse is with me, adding to the piece extemporaneously.  Sometimes it works, and sometimes it all falls apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, each new section fits right in and seems like it is part of a previously written complete song.  Part of the trick is that when I play the prepared part and then bop out a good next section,  I shove it right into memory and they repeat it again later in the song so it comes off as a pre-planned bridge or chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this recording, as I recall, only the first section was something I&#8217;d just written and all that follows are variations on the theme.  In total, there are four sections, and after the last one I just repeat them all in the same order, and the result is something that sounds like a fully developed song that I had in mind going in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written and recorded in the early 1970s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When doing a jam session, I usually start with a little prepared part &#8211; some fragment of a melody or chord progression that intrigued me enough to record it. Once I&#8217;ve played that part, I just keep on going as long as the Muse is with me, adding to the piece extemporaneously. Sometimes it works, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-compositions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-1VV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}