Getting funky

This song was written on May 30, 2018.  From writing it and the final production, it's been funky the whole time.  Here are my thoughts from the day I wrote the song - and how I wrote it:

Wooooo!  This was a fun one!  If you keep track of how I write these songs, you’ll notice an immediate difference with this one.  Today I started out writing the lyrics as I usually do, but I only wrote two verses.  Today I recorded these two verses a cappella because I had an idea for the melody in my head and I didn’t want it to be manipulated by putting chords down and trying to sing over the chords.  I think it let me be really vocally free and create a fun melody.  Back in the third or fourth #OneHourSong (this is the 29th, woot!) I realized I was laying down chords and not thinking about the melody of my lyrics at all – therefore I was basically singing the same melody over and over for the first two or three #OneHourSongs.  This a cappella route was just what the songwriting doctor ordered.

After I sang the two verses I noodled around and sang the chorus and then I laid down some pads and strings underneath.  Obviously I had to rerecord the vocals, because some things went out of tune with no idea what the chord changes would end up being, but overall I really like this piece.  I’m glad I had a lot of time to add a lot of fun brass lines and keep this song grooving.  I hope you enjoy!  Let me know what you think and feel free to share with your friends!

It only got funkier after that.  With Paul Norman, we turned this into a sexy, seductive piece.  You'll notice the bridge is also the return of Coleman's theme.

I hope you enjoy this, and make sure you look for the hidden Easter egg in the video 😉

The Demo

I loved the horn riff in the chorus, but Paul wasn't having it.  We decided to cut it.  Paul made me though. :-p