The Busker

I had the house to myself for a week, and apart from working, and looking for other things, I began recording more 'Overzealous Work Ethic' songs.

I came up with piano tune over a number of hours. I wanted something almost classical sounding, with lots of stops and starts. I first got the verse part, but it took a fair time for it to develop into the finished verse it is in the song. After this I managed to get a chorus, but was initially finding it difficult to link them. I managed to link them with a simple piece inbetween. I then towards the end of the song, came up with the intro and outro, which had been a simple version of what it finally turned into. So the underlying tune was complete.

I had the lyrics for 'The Busker' sitting, but I didn't know if the song would work well with it. I didn't know whether it'd be better to use the lyrics with an acoustic song, to compliment the title. But I thought I would try it out. Due the song being about a busker who has failed to fulfil his dreams of becoming famous, it seemed that the emotional piano music could work with it. So I tried it out.

I recorded the piano tune as a whole, which took countless attempts and had me punching the keyboard time and time again. I got a version I was eventually happy with, and recorded the vocals. It took a couple of attempts, but I eventually got to a set I was happy with. I also recorded a second set of backing vocals, which I made pan left and right throughout the song. So at this point, it was sounding good, but it needed more. I wanted to add some classical samples in again like with 'Evil Eye'. But what happened was I used lots of cut up samples, and the tune started to progress into this abrupt, dramatic classical motion picture sounding tune. It took me about 3 hours to do this. To begin with, it was completely unintentional, but sounded amazing - in my opinion. I was so happy with the dramatic sound. I'd always wanted to create a classical sounding album, but never thought I'd be able to. I then took an audio of me and my younger brother Andrew jamming in 2008, and put that behind the song.

I edited it all and then went back and listened to it. There are parts that are slightly out, but I think that in some way also adds to the drama in the song. I am very happy with the song, and it has set the tone for the rest of the album - a classical, dramatic, motion picture soundtrack.

Watch this space,
Wullae

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