Deeper

Robert James

2021 5090 Song Number 31

I’m not sure why I don’t write key changes more often than I do. I wonder if it’s a subconscious desire to cut and paste repeated verses and choruses and such. If you sing the first verse in C minor (as I did with this nugget) and then change the key to D minor (which we all know is the saddest of all keys) then you have to sing it a second time. You can’t just copy and paste. Maybe that’s it.

I’ve been having a hard time singing in tune this summer but this one sounds okay. The harmonies are locking in nicely at times. I dropped the ball dynamically in the last eight bars where the drums and rhythm guitars get quieter and the bass and lead guitar don’t. I should be better about that.

Lots of gear making appearances on this one. The guitar tracks are all my Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s. The amp on the rhythm tracks is a Fender Bassbreaker 15. On the lead it’s a Vox AC15. The pedals on the rhythm tracks are a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Ryra The Klone. For the leads its a Dunlop Crybaby wah (the Joe Bonamassa signature model) into an MXR Phase 90 into a Klon KTR into a Keeley D&M Drive (just the Dan side).

Chorus
No good reason (x2)

Verse 1 & 3 (key change)
try to look deeper
to find a keeper
Its right in front of you
no easy sleeper

Verse 2
Hard feelings raging
opinions changing
its too late to say no
decision making

Bridge
Not alone
on your own