Song Evolution::Adding Blue

For those of you who don't know, a friend of mine from College named my guitar the Blue Ox (I just call her Blue). I think he was trying to do a British accent and call it the Blue Ax, but butchered the accent and made it sound like Ox.

Anyway, Blue is my main girl. She is the magic that makes it all possible. All my songs are written on her and she has been my instrument of choice for every musical endeavor. She supplied the next bit of music added to Nothing to Lose (NTL).

However, I decided that, for this song, she would not take a role in the forefront, but become more of an accent. Most of the songs I write are rhythm guitar driven and I wanted this song to be less dependent on that kind of force.

If you listen to the difference between this stage in the song versus previous stages, you'll notice a lot more meatiness. Only two parts were added for the majority of the song and I decided to layer three more guitar parts at the end as a crescendo to accent the end of the song. The intent is to keep building and building throughout the course of NTL.

Take a listen and pay attention to the latter minute of the song to hear Blue shine.


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