{"id":942,"date":"2015-02-20T23:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T23:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2016-06-02T04:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:30:01","slug":"every-love-song-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Love Song Is About You — Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is part of a series about my songwriting process in writing a song called “Every Love Song.” Part I is here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

01\/19\/2015<\/h2>\n

Today, I worked about 5 hours on the lyrics. I threw out almost everything I’d had earlier except the chorus but kept many of the ideas. Having the song more arranged and tangible changed the way the lyrics flowed.<\/p>\n

I started out by listening to the guitar parts I’d done yesterday<\/a>. I listened, over and over. I turned off my critical brain and just sang along with whatever words came to mind. Most of it was silly but every once in a while, I got a line I liked. When I did, I would write it down and see if I could work another line next to it. Occasionally I’d look down at my lyric sheet and draw ideas from the earlier lyrics I’d written.<\/p>\n

A Change Of Scenery<\/h2>\n

\"Silver<\/a>When I got as far as I could (the ideas were no longer flowing), I changed venues. I went down to Silver Cup Coffee with my lyric notebook in hand, grabbed a cup of cinnamon tea and went to work. I worked with both the ideas I’m come up with earlier in the day and the ideas from the days preceding.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I’d plug my ears so I could hear the melody and rhythm of the song over the music playing at the coffee shop.<\/p>\n

Again, I worked it until it felt like is wasn’t productive any more and changed venues. Back to the apartment.<\/p>\n

To The Bat Cave!<\/h2>\n

At the apartment, I decide to slap a quick lead vocal track down to see where I was. I plugged a mic in and hit record. I only re-recorded when I forgot a lyric or a melody. The object here was to get the current shape of the vocal down and listen to it in relation to the music — not to get a perfect vocal track.<\/p>\n

The result is what you call a”scratch vocal.” It’s enough to tell how the song is supposed to go.<\/p>\n

FYI, I didn’t even warm up my voice; it’s pretty raw. This kind of track is not usually released for public consumption, but here it is…<\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Every-Love-Song-Scratch-Vocals.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Every Love Song Scratch Vocals<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s Next?<\/h2>\n

I listened through it a few times and found a few things I’d like to change lyrically. That’s for next time. At every step of the songwriting\/recording process I find things I like and things I want to change. It’s a continuous molding of the song until you get something you’re happy (or happy enough) with. It could<\/em> go on forever.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to hear where the arrangement\/production can be sweetened too, Can’t wait.<\/p>\n

Keith<\/p>\n

PS: I’m up to 8 sheets of paper on these lyrics and 12 1\/2 hours into the song. Again, I feel pretty good about where I am, especially for the brief amount of time spent so far.<\/p>\n

PPS: OK, I spent about another 1\/2 hour singing along and getting ideas for harmony parts. 13 hours, so far. This part of the process involves a lot of creative juices and it’s fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article is part of a series about my songwriting process in writing a song called “Every Love Song.” Part I is here. 01\/19\/2015 Today, I worked about 5 hours on the lyrics. I threw out almost everything I’d had earlier except the chorus but kept many of the ideas. Having the song more arranged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,50],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nEvery Love Song Is About You - Part IV - Music From Keith Livingston<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Every Love Song Is About You - Part IV - Music From Keith Livingston\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This article is part of a series about my songwriting process in writing a song called “Every Love Song.” Part I is here. 01\/19\/2015 Today, I worked about 5 hours on the lyrics. I threw out almost everything I’d had earlier except the chorus but kept many of the ideas. Having the song more arranged […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Music From Keith Livingston\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-20T23:02:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-02T04:30:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"325\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"243\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Keith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Keith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/\",\"name\":\"Every Love Song Is About You - Part IV - Music From Keith Livingston\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-20T23:02:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-02T04:30:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38f0b88b32976ecc92ab860608603f3e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg\",\"width\":325,\"height\":243},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Every Love Song Is About You — Part IV\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/\",\"name\":\"Music From Keith Livingston\",\"description\":\"Keith Livingston's Music\",\"alternateName\":\"Keith's Music\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38f0b88b32976ecc92ab860608603f3e\",\"name\":\"Keith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18973cc921df6c81d00d085c397b1175?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18973cc921df6c81d00d085c397b1175?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Keith\"},\"description\":\"Keith Livingston is a songwriter, musician, producer, and engineer, with roots in pop, rock, punk, classical and classics. Keith has more than a dozen CDs under his belt as a producer and\/or engineer. Keith writes music about everything from science fiction and horror, to religious oppression, and of course love.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/author\/unify\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Every Love Song Is About You - Part IV - Music From Keith Livingston","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Every Love Song Is About You - Part IV - Music From Keith Livingston","og_description":"This article is part of a series about my songwriting process in writing a song called “Every Love Song.” Part I is here. 01\/19\/2015 Today, I worked about 5 hours on the lyrics. I threw out almost everything I’d had earlier except the chorus but kept many of the ideas. Having the song more arranged […]","og_url":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/","og_site_name":"Music From Keith Livingston","article_published_time":"2015-02-20T23:02:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-06-02T04:30:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":325,"height":243,"url":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Keith","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Keith","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/","url":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/","name":"Every Love Song Is About You - Part IV - Music From Keith Livingston","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg","datePublished":"2015-02-20T23:02:31+00:00","dateModified":"2016-06-02T04:30:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38f0b88b32976ecc92ab860608603f3e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SilverCup_small.jpg","width":325,"height":243},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/every-love-song-part-iv\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Every Love Song Is About You — Part IV"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/","name":"Music From Keith Livingston","description":"Keith Livingston's Music","alternateName":"Keith's Music","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38f0b88b32976ecc92ab860608603f3e","name":"Keith","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18973cc921df6c81d00d085c397b1175?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18973cc921df6c81d00d085c397b1175?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Keith"},"description":"Keith Livingston is a songwriter, musician, producer, and engineer, with roots in pop, rock, punk, classical and classics. Keith has more than a dozen CDs under his belt as a producer and\/or engineer. Keith writes music about everything from science fiction and horror, to religious oppression, and of course love.","sameAs":["https:\/\/keithlivingston.com"],"url":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/author\/unify\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithlivingston.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}