#Piano chords another one mac demarco windows#
Out the windows is the Jamaica Bay, and across that is JFK Airport. I have my desk against these two windows on the far side of the room, and I was sitting there for the most part. I did it in the bedroom I'm sitting in right now. I wrote all in about week, and then I recorded them over the next week and a half. It kind of reminds me of my music from a really long time ago, but that was all on guitar, so to be able to come up with that on synthesizer, it was kind of refreshing. I was kind of surprised I was able to come up with it. For this one, it's got a different melody style in terms of the vocals than I usually go for. But I can't play like that, so instead, I tried to do these chord changes and stuff.
The thing that pushed towards synths was I got into Yellow Magic Orchestra. I don't think I've got the funk in my bones enough to make something really funky or R&B or whatever. It's kind of that gloomy, pumping organ sound. I think was trying to make a little bit of a kind of R&B-style song, but it didn't really turn out that way. This is, I think, the first song I wrote for this album. But live, now we can become a jam band with this song. At the end, there is a really long guitar solo that just goes to a fade-out. But Jerry predominantly plays in a guitar scale called the mixolydian mode. I didn't go to the reunion shows or anything. I couldn't tell you my favorite live taping. I wouldn't consider myself a devout Deadhead or anything. I've become quite a big fan of the Grateful Dead over the last few years. That's another thing that I was kind of trying to play with as well. Maybe I didn't do the best job of it, but to have something that's extremely repetitive but also have it change in different ways slightly over the course of the recording is really interesting to me. There is a discernible chorus in it and there are different sections, but it's the exact same chord progression both times. Then on this one, I took it even a step further. It's like verse-chorus-verse-double chorus. I've pretty much just stopped writing bridges altogether. As the music's gone on over the years, I've always tried to keep simplifying. This one I kind of thought of a little more musically, because the lyrics are pretty simple and quite repetitive. But it doesn't matter at that point because it doesn't matter because your heart's beating so fast. But most of the time, it's not really going to work that way. Your heart starts pounding, you're all excited, and you get all these ideas and all these notions. It's the fantasy and the imagination - the initial feelings that come before things kind of get f***** up. It's that feeling where, "Maybe you've got something else going on, but if you came with me, I'd be able to make you real happy." It's that naivete or whatever, that arrogance, the excitement part of having a crush on somebody. This one kind of mixes the scenes from the first two songs, where there's somebody out there, and you really want to love her and you think you'd really like her. For some reason, the chord progression reminds me of a John Lennon chord progression because he had very simple, chunky piano parts in his songs. This one is another one I wrote on the piano, or I mean the synthesizer. This one is a little more of a narrative, so the singer is saying, "There's this girl out there, and she is in some kind of relationship thing," and then perhaps the singer's perspective is being the other man in sort of an entanglement. It's interesting, and I end up coming up with weird things. That works." I don't have the proper hand or fingering technique, so I'm just trying to figure out something that works for me that I can actually play. So it's kind of the same thing where I know where notes are, and I know some chords and some chord variations and stuff, but a lot of times I'll just put my hand down and be like, "Oh, I like that.
#Piano chords another one mac demarco how to#
On the piano, to the same respect, I never even learned how to play. It kind of forced me to find new shapes and new chord progressions and new things. So I wouldn't do something like, "Here's the major scale, here's the pentatonic scale," because I just had no idea where the notes were on the guitar anymore.
What I used to do with my old band is I would tune my guitar strings so I couldn't find chord shapes. Well, I mean, on the synthesizer - I don't have a piano. Sitting down at the piano to write songs, for me, is pretty interesting. I'm not a great piano player or anything, but I can try to bang away a little bit. "Another One" is my favorite song on the album because I'm kind of a guitar player guy, so to write songs that are all keyboard and no guitar is a new thing for me.
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