Mathematical Proof

Robert James

2021 50/90 Song Number 39.

A little song about a girl named Jennifer.

This one came together lightning fast and I think it shows. As I was sitting here mixing it just now I came up with about 10 ideas to make it better and as a result it might be recorded again in the future. Also… I am 90% sure I have written this exact song at least once before, so maybe my “improvements” are just things I did the last time I wrote it so… yeah.

I had an absolute bear of a time recording the guitar solos. I improvise everything because that’s my favorite thing about the entire musical experience, but tonight it just wasn’t happening. The wah wah solo in the middle of the song must have required 28,000 takes (approximately).

Lots of gear on this one. All of the guitar tracks are my Les Paul Standard into my Vox AC15, but there are about a million pedals in play. For the rhythm tracks we have a crybaby wah, an MXR Phase 90 (which I constantly typo as a “phrase 90” because I am an idiot and can’t type to save my life), a cheap little Mooer Elec-Lady which is the best flanger on the market (in my opinion), and a Klon KTR. The leads used the crybaby, a Wren and Cuff Tri Pi 70 (the best fuzz pedal in the universe), the KTR (the best overdrive pedal in the universe), and… I always forget the name of this little bastard… a Donner Harmonic Square pitch shift pedal for the octave down in the first solo.

Chorus
Its a sound that I hear every time I think of you
Its a thought that I think every time you come around
You’re the thought comes to me when I don’t know what to do
You’re the safety I need when I can’t go on I can’t be found

Verse 1 & 3
This one will work nicely
this one is just better than the rest
it answers precisely
You solved the riddle

Verse 2
solution discovered
the math has been checked and verified
the answer uncovered
You prove the statement

Bridge
you are the one
the one for me
the one for me