I feel like I have an internal rhythm of four over four. I want to write a waltz but it’s proving to be difficult because my internal clock keeps ticking to the wrong beat. Or the right beat? Maybe I’m trying to write to the wrong beat and my inside pendulum is the one who’s got it right.
Lately I’ve been realizing that I need to expand my rhythm and chord vocabulary so I’ve been going through old notes and scale exercises to find new sounds. It is a great practice to go back over all of that information (a lot of which I’d forgotten) and it’s helping (I think) with the few new songs that I am working on. They sound a little different. More mature, perhaps, but mostly just different.
Also, I have a feeling that because of this internal clock issue they currently sound a little forced. My pendulum is swinging one note longer than each measure of my song and it’s causing me to be a little stiff. Though the songs are new and with practice I’m sure they will become comfortable, for now I’m struggling with my inner nature. Trying to sway to the beat of a waltz on the outside while fingerpicking my pentatonic scales and keeping the wrong time on the inside.
It’s all quite confusing, I know. But if you think that is bad you should try being inside my head with all this ruckus.
